Emily Adler
Practical, strengths-based support for families
- Credentials
- LCSW, LICSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri, Kansas, West Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Emily
Emily Adler uses a client-centered approach to guide parents and caregivers through stressful periods. She focuses on listening carefully, identifying what matters most, and helping people take practical steps forward. Emily holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW - and a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker - LICSW.
She practices in Missouri and brings eight years of experience to her work. Emily often helps with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and parenting concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, relationship problems, and issues related to identity and self esteem. Her background includes work with blended families, adoption and foster care situations, caregiver stress, and substance use concerns. In sessions she mixes goal-focused techniques with listening and reflection.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools can help people change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. Solution-Focused strategies support quick steps toward clearer goals. Trauma-focused methods are used when past harm affects day-to-day life.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. She treats each person as the expert on their life and helps build on strengths you already have. The intention is to find practical, doable changes that fit real family life.
Emily accepts English-speaking clients and does not work with international clients. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Costs vary with location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting support
Emily blends client-centered care with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-focused methods to address common family and parenting concerns. Client-Centered Therapy centers sessions on what matters most to the client and uses active listening and reflection to identify strengths and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers concrete tools to change patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to anxiety, low mood, or relationship stress. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps process past harm and reduce its impact on current parenting and family functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what proves most helpful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy families. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, phone sessions remove travel barriers, and live chat or text messaging provides flexible check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent support around parenting duties and daily life.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas, West Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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