Emma Henderschedt
Family-focused social worker for parents
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Emma
Emma Henderschedt is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on stress, anxiety, parenting, and family concerns. She works with issues like trauma and abuse, self-esteem, relationship strain, anger, career stress, and coping with life changes. Parents and caregivers will find straightforward guidance and practical strategies to try between sessions.
Emma uses evidence-based methods to help people manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. She blends approaches such as attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR for trauma, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with clear steps to practice at home. Her training includes a post-graduate fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center where she worked with children and adolescents and learned multiple therapeutic models. Emma brings three years of clinical experience as a licensed social worker.
In sessions she focuses on understanding relationship patterns and strengthening caregiver-child connections when needed. She also addresses practical problems like behavior challenges, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and adoption or foster care concerns. Treatment plans are adapted to each person’s situation.
Emma provides care in English and sees clients located in Connecticut. She offers a mix of session formats to fit busy family schedules. If a family wants to explore therapy, she helps clarify steps and plans that feel manageable.
Approaches that fit family life and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and patterns between caregivers and children. It looks at how early connections affect everyday interactions and helps people build safer, more predictable responses in family life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple skills to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that helps reduce the emotional charge of distressing memories. It can be useful when past events continue to affect day-to-day functioning. Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with the client or family to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what actually helps in daily life. Online therapy makes these approaches more accessible for busy families. Emma provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so parents and caregivers can fit sessions around school, work, and appointments. These options support consistent care and let people practice skills in the settings where they live and raise kids.Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Emma
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- Stop at any point