About Emily
Emily Nielsen is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people reduce stress and anxiety, improve relationships, and handle major life changes. Her work emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and practical support for real-life problems.
Emily uses a strengths-based outlook to tailor conversations and plans to each person's needs. She helps with communication, boundaries, intimacy concerns, grief, and parenting strain.
How Emily works
Sessions are meant to be collaborative and down-to-earth rather than overly clinical. Clients often seek her help for anger, low self-esteem, career pressures, and coping after loss or separation. She also addresses attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and codependency.
Emily brings a steady, compassionate presence while focusing on concrete steps a person can take. Her approach blends several methods to match what a person needs in the moment. That can mean working on thoughts and behaviors, improving emotional connection, or using mindful practices to reduce reactivity.
She explains options clearly and adjusts the plan as progress is made. Emily aims to empower people to make changes that feel manageable. She encourages small, sustainable shifts and helps clients practice new skills between sessions.
The overall goal is more effective coping, clearer communication, and a stronger sense of personal direction.
Emily lists 11 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Emily’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting therapeutic relationship. It centers the person's experience and supports self-directed growth, which can help with low self-esteem, grief, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, stress, anger, and career-related pressures because it targets specific thoughts and actions that cause distress.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, concentrates on emotional connection and understanding patterns in relationships. It can help people who want clearer communication, to resolve attachment concerns, or to navigate intimacy issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emily will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She explains options, tests what helps, and adjusts the plan over time so therapy stays useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper emotional work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments while keeping treatment consistent.
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