Emily Shiers
Positive, practical support for parenting and family
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Emily
Emily Shiers is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns. She speaks plainly and aims to help parents and caregivers manage stress, parenting challenges, and the practical parts of life that get in the way. She works in Mississippi and brings two decades of clinical experience to sessions.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. She meets people where they are and tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Emily has experience supporting adults involved with child protective services who are working toward reunification. She also has specialized training related to people who have experienced psychosis. Clients can expect help with anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes.
Emily also addresses compassion fatigue, addictions, ADHD, grief, anger, relationship and family problems, and career stress. She draws on evidence-based techniques to guide practical steps and real-world coping skills. Sessions may look like problem-solving, practicing new ways to communicate, learning stress management tools, or planning for behavior changes at home.
Emily aims to empower people and build skills that carry over between sessions. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and a nonjudgmental approach. Her work includes attention to adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, co-occurring conditions, and other complex family dynamics.
Over her 20 years she has worked with a wide range of concerns connected to family life, from parenting stress to end-of-life and first responder issues. Emily adapts care to each person’s situation and goals.
Practical approaches for online family and parenting support
Emily often draws from structured, evidence-based approaches that focus on skills and behavior change. One commonly used method is cognitive-behavioral techniques, which help people identify unhelpful thoughts and build more effective coping and problem-solving habits. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and parenting-related thinking patterns.She also uses strategies drawn from family-focused interventions that emphasize communication and clear routines. These techniques help families and caregivers improve interactions, set consistent boundaries, and reduce conflict in daily life. They are helpful for blended family issues, adoption and foster care challenges, and general family problems.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Emily will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the practical realities of family life. She adapts plans over time based on what works and what needs adjustment.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy family schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions let people connect without video, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a week and keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
Next step
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