Emily Hakkinen
Compassionate, clear support for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Vermont
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Emily
Emily Hakkinen is a licensed clinical social worker in Vermont. She helps people facing stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, grief and loss, low self-esteem, and struggles with motivation. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful.
Sessions focus on making a space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through without judgment. Emily uses straightforward conversation to help clients clarify what matters most to them.
Background and approach
She encourages small, practical steps toward change rather than overwhelming plans. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s experience and perspective. She also uses mindfulness practices to build present-moment awareness and motivational interviewing to uncover what motivates change.
These tools are chosen to match each person’s needs and goals. Emily has five years of professional experience and holds a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential - LICSW. That license is listed in Vermont as VT LICSW 089.0136039.
She offers services in English and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to connect with her. Therapy uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and session cost varies with location and therapist availability.
Practical approaches for online support
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s experience first. The therapist listens closely and mirrors what matters to the client, helping people feel heard and clearer about their next steps. This approach is useful for stress, relationship concerns, grief, and confidence work.Mindfulness therapy helps people notice thoughts and bodily feelings in the present moment. Simple practices are used to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can help with anxiety and coping with life changes. Motivational interviewing is a brief conversational style that helps uncover personal reasons for change and boosts motivation when someone feels stuck.
Choosing the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust based on the client’s goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, continue work during transitions, or use shorter check-ins when helpful. The range of options supports consistent contact and practical progress from wherever the client is located in Vermont.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Vermont
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Emily
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point