Emily Collings

Emily Collings is a non-binary therapist who focuses on helping people live in line with their values. Emily uses a respectful, affirming approach to help clients talk through hard things like grief, eating concerns, trauma, anger, and anxiety. They bring four years of clinical experience and hold LCPC and LPC credentials in the biographical context provided. Sessions emphasize openness, respect, and practical steps toward change.

Emily centers the person in therapy and works from approaches that encourage self-acceptance and clear goals. Conversations often begin with what matters most to the client and move toward small, doable changes. Emily values neurodiversity-affirming and queer-affirming work and pays attention to how social pressures affect mood, behavior, and relationships.

In sessions Emily mixes person-centered listening with skills-based tools. That can mean learning grounding and distress-tolerance skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, practicing values-based choices from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice thought patterns that feed stress and anger. Expressive arts, self-compassion practices, and discussion of everyday struggles also appear in the work.

People reach out for help with eating and body image, addiction and substance concerns, caregiving stress, ADHD, and family of origin issues. Emily also supports those dealing with fertility challenges, chronic illness, and grief. The focus is practical: clearer coping, steadier mood, and more satisfying daily routines.

To begin, Emily asks clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How specific approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to reduce worry and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and building better emotional balance.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Emily will listen to a client's goals and preferences and suggest approaches that fit those needs. Together they map out what to try first and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.

Confirm current session options before booking because the biography does not list specific online formats. Online work can make scheduling easier and let people fit sessions into busy days. It can also allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, reduce travel time, and make consistent attendance easier during life transitions. Licensed professionals, including therapists, adapt talk and skills practice to work well through remote sessions when that format is chosen.