Emily Kissner
Creative evidence-informed counseling for adults
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Emily
Emily Kissner is an LCPC and a practicing counselor based in Illinois. She combines art-influenced methods with psychotherapy to help people manage depression, anxiety, trauma, and related life stresses. Emily describes her approach as feminist and LGBTQA+ affirming, and she is aware of poly, kink, and sex work concerns.
She works with people who want clearer coping tools and more self-understanding. Emily earned a master of arts degree in art therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Background and approach
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside creative, art-focused practices to help clients express difficult feelings and name what matters to them. Sessions often include practical skills for managing emotions and everyday challenges. With 12 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Emily supports people facing complex trauma, personality-related struggles, and issues connected to substance use.
She also helps with concerns around attachment, abandonment, and blended family dynamics. She brings attention to career, self-esteem, and body image questions as part of longer-term change. Emily frames therapy as a collaborative process.
She helps clients explore patterns in relationships, communication challenges, and control or codependency difficulties. Her background in art and activism informs a hands-on, curious style rather than a lecture-based model. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
How evidence-informed and creative methods translate online
Emily combines art-informed practices with evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship or attachment concerns. Art-informed work uses creative activities to help name feelings, practice new responses, and reflect on personal history. Evidence-based techniques focus on building specific coping skills for distress, emotion regulation, and communication challenges.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to identify what feels useful and adjust methods as goals and needs change. Clients help set priorities and test different strategies together over time.
The original biography does not list which session formats are offered, so please confirm current online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when a full in-person visit is difficult. It also lets clients try creative, art-based exercises adapted for remote work and focus on practical skills they can use between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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