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Online therapist

Emily Cyburt

Compassionate, practical support for relationship and anxiety concerns

Credentials
LPC
Experience
12 years
Licensed in
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Emily

Emily Cyburt is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, relationship concerns, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports clients coping with life changes, anger, and communication problems. Emily aims for straightforward, practical conversations that help people move forward.

Her style is direct and collaborative. Sessions focus on real skills and clear goals. Emily combines talking, skills practice, and brief assignments to build new habits between sessions.

Background and approach

She draws from several evidence-informed methods, including client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work around connection, and solution-focused steps to try right away. These tools are used to address attachment difficulties, codependency, commitment and infidelity concerns, panic symptoms, social anxiety, and personality-related struggles. Emily has worked in outpatient mental health since 2013 and has been licensed as an LPC since 2019.

LPC stands for Licensed Professional Counselor. She also holds national counseling certification and training focused on personality disorder treatment and related relationship impacts. In sessions she emphasizes honesty, effort, and teamwork.

Emily describes therapy as a process that requires practice both in and outside appointments. She invites people to take gradual steps toward clearer communication, steadier mood, and healthier boundaries.

Approaches that translate to online care

Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and reflection. The therapist focuses on understanding your experience and helps you use your own words to make sense of feelings and choices. This approach is useful for people who need space to process relationship and self-esteem concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions include exercises and short assignments to practice between meetings, which can help with anxiety, panic symptoms, and mood management.

Emily will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit best. Finding the right method is part of the work together - she helps tailor techniques to a person’s goals, preferences, and the problems they bring to therapy.

Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let a person see facial cues and build connection, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text messaging offer ongoing, flexible check-ins. These options support consistent work on goals from wherever a person is located, using the methods chosen together.

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.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
Emily works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, intimacy concerns, anger, self esteem, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, infidelity, panic attacks, and young adult issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is direct and collaborative, with straightforward conversation and practical skill building. Sessions mix listening, feedback, and actionable steps to try between appointments.
What background and experience does she have?
She has practiced in outpatient mental health since 2013 and has been a licensed professional counselor since 2019, bringing 12 years of experience to her work.
What credentials and location are listed for the therapist?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor with licence number PA LPC PC011305 and practices in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are offered and can she work with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the client’s needs.
How are costs handled for sessions?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I need to do to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

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Experience
12 years
Licensed
Pennsylvania
Languages
English

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