About Emily
Emily Goodyear is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia who draws on mindfulness and trauma-focused work to help people move forward. She blends straightforward feedback with compassionate listening to support people through difficult changes. Emily emphasizes honesty, respect, and compassion in sessions and aims to help people find more confidence and self-worth.
In sessions she uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered techniques, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Mindfulness practices, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.
How Emily works
She adapts methods to each person's needs rather than applying a single technique to everyone. This means practical tools, grounding practices, and focused conversations depending on what a person is facing. Emily has six years of clinical experience working with concerns such as depression, anxiety, mood disorders, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress.
She also supports people dealing with addictions, substance use, compassion fatigue, and co-occurring conditions. Relationship and intimacy-related issues, anger, and life transitions are regular topics in her work. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, body image and self-love struggles, codependency, dissociation, divorce and separation, and feelings of isolation or shame.
She also offers coaching-style support for people seeking clarity on life purpose or who are navigating career and identity questions. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Emily works with individual adults to explore goals, learn coping strategies, and build a clearer sense of direction.
Emily lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Emily works with
The areas below are the ones Emily selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How Emily's approaches work online
Emily draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, connect with their values, and take small actions that matter. ACT focuses on identifying what matters most and committing to steps that align with those values. Mindfulness practices help people tune into the present moment and reduce reactivity to strong emotions.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address reactions that follow distressing events. That work often involves gradual grounding, developing safety skills, and processing memories at a pace that feels manageable. These approaches aim to reduce overwhelming symptoms and increase a sense of control over daily life.
Finding the right combination is part of the process and will be a collaborative conversation. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and situation, adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people meet face to face for deeper emotional work while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support quick reflections between sessions or ongoing coaching-style support during busy days.
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