About Emily
Emily McBay is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 13 years of clinical experience. She lives in Florida and brings a down-to-earth style to sessions. Emily started out studying meteorology before finding a passion for counseling after many life experiences and moves around the country.
She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts and a master’s in counseling and psychology from Palm Beach Atlantic University. Her graduate concentration included family and forensics.
How Emily works
Early in her career she provided counseling in correctional settings and helped college students and staff with individual concerns at a university and treatment center. Today she works through a local non-profit with a varied caseload. Emily focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, parenting struggles, relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
She also addresses attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, infertility-related stress, forgiveness, and midlife shifts. Her approach is person-centered and integrative. She draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based work, and solution-focused strategies.
Sessions are shaped around each person’s goals and values rather than a single method. Emily aims to be practical and encouraging in sessions. She helps people set realistic goals, try new skills, and notice what matters most to them.
Her style is supportive and straightforward while keeping the focus on steps clients can take between meetings.
Emily lists 6 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Emily’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful actions toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, life changes, and motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how early bonds shape current trust, boundaries, and intimacy concerns. This work can be useful for codependency, commitment issues, and communication problems. Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s perspective at the center of sessions, using empathic listening and reflection so people feel heard and can find their own solutions. It supports self-esteem work, coping with transitions, and parenting strains.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Emily will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit each person’s needs. She adapts techniques as therapy unfolds, checking in about what helps and changing course if needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit support into a busy day or to follow up between sessions. These options let people connect from familiar settings and pick the format that best matches their schedule and comfort.
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