About Emma
Emma Cott is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and other common concerns. She brings a calm, direct manner and encourages acceptance as a starting point for change. Emma writes plainly and meets people where they are in the moment.
Emma has worked in Kansas since 2012 and has twelve years of clinical experience. She spent the early part of her career in community mental health doing crisis intervention.
Background and approach
Since moving into independent practice in 2017 she has worked with adolescents, adults, couples, and families on a wide range of issues. Her practice focuses on practical work in sessions. She uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most.
She then pulls in tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical behavior strategies to address thoughts, behaviors, and emotion regulation. Emma also uses trauma-focused methods when past events keep getting in the way of daily life. She will talk through coping skills, communication strategies, and steps to rebuild safety and trust in relationships.
Expect a warm, supportive style with invitations to try new behaviors between sessions. She helps people with depression, grief, intimacy and sexual concerns including kink and BDSM topics, eating and sleep problems, parenting stress, codependency, and career questions. Emma emphasizes acceptance first, then steady work toward the goals the client names.
Online approaches that focus on skills and healing
Emma draws from client-centered therapy to create a session where the person's experience is heard first. Client-centered work focuses on empathy and understanding, which helps people feel respected and clear about their goals.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific skills to shift unhelpful patterns. For people struggling with intense emotions or relationship conflict, Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Emma will talk with each person about their needs and preferences, try interventions that match those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The aim is to combine listening with practical steps the client can use between sessions.
Online sessions can happen by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for in-depth work and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a session needs to fit into a short break. Chat or text can support quick check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing coaching between appointments.
These options make it easier to get regular support, try new coping skills, and maintain momentum toward the goals you set together.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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