Emily Vaughan
Calm, practical help for parenting and life stress
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Emily
Emily Vaughan is a licensed professional clinical counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction concerns. She also supports people dealing with relationship struggles, intimacy questions, parenting strain, and issues related to self-esteem. Emily practices with sensitivity and respect and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
With 19 years of experience, Emily adapts conversations and plans to each person’s circumstances. She listens first, then works with clients to set clear goals.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful, not full of jargon. Her work often includes strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She also uses client-centered and mindfulness-based methods to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
Motivational interviewing helps when substance use or behavior change is part of the concern. Emily is licensed as an LPCC, Kentucky license number KY LPCC 104497, and practices in Kentucky. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels.
People who reach out can expect a collaborative approach that balances practical skills with attention to values and long-term goals. Emily encourages small steps and checks in on progress to keep work realistic and manageable.
How Emily’s Approaches Fit Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values. Online sessions using ACT often focus on small, doable actions and exercises to practice between appointments. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful cycles; it works well for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Choosing the right approach is a shared task. Emily works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and comfort with online tools. She usually starts with a simple plan and adjusts methods as people try things and report back about what helps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, support quicker check-ins between sessions, and allow people to use the format that feels most comfortable. Emily uses these formats to keep work practical, focused on goals, and accessible for different routines and energy levels.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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