Emily Standridge
Compassionate help for stress and life transitions
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Emily
Emily Standridge is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She supports adults navigating relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, and changes in life circumstances. Emily encourages clients to build on their strengths and take small steps toward greater well-being.
She practices from Pennsylvania and brings eight years of clinical experience to her work. Her style is direct and practical. Sessions focus on clear goals, skills you can try between meetings, and honest conversation about what is working.
Background and approach
Emily listens for patterns that get in the way and offers tools to shift those habits. She also addresses issues such as sleep problems, self-esteem, and caring for others under stress. Emily pays attention to sensitive topics like trauma, addiction, and intimacy-related concerns with care.
She is familiar with conversations around gender identity and LGBT issues, as well as body image and alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink. When health problems or chronic pain are present, she works to fit therapeutic steps around daily limitations. Her approach balances coping skills and exploration of life story.
Sessions may include practical coaching around career, money, or parenting stress. She takes a collaborative stance, treating the person in front of her as the expert on their life. Emily offers multiple remote formats including video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible.
She provides guidance on next steps and helps clients find an approach that fits their needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Emily commonly uses evidence-based techniques that teach practical skills and help people make changes in daily life. One approach focuses on building coping skills for anxiety and stress - learning breathing, grounding, and routine habits that reduce overwhelm and improve sleep. Another approach examines patterns in relationships and communication, helping people notice automatic reactions and try clearer ways of asking for needs and setting boundaries.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps most, so clients are active partners in choosing a path forward.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around parenting, work, medical needs, or mobility limitations. Using remote formats, clients can practice skills in the settings where they live and get feedback between meetings, which supports steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Emily
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point