About Emily
Emily Schmid is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with nine years of experience. She helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, parenting strain, and life transitions. She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, eating and self-esteem concerns, and issues related to pregnancy and postpartum.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. She centers the client's perspective and helps them build on strengths they already have.
How Emily works
Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth, with clear steps to try between meetings. Emily aims to make progress feel achievable, not overwhelming. Emily draws on several therapy styles to match what each person needs.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current ones. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) tools are available for working on strong emotions and relationship patterns.
She has particular experience supporting people through pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum challenges, including postpartum depression and fertility-related stress. She also works with adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and communication difficulties. Emily describes clients as the experts on their own lives and focuses on practical steps that fit daily routines.
Her style blends warmth with clear guidance so people can try new ways of coping without feeling judged.
Emily lists 10 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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Emily often blends attachment-based ideas with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people understand how relationships and thinking patterns affect their mood and behavior. Attachment-based methods look at how early connection styles show up in current relationships, which can help with intimacy and communication struggles. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, low mood, and stress.She also uses elements of Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people name and work through strong emotions in relationships, and tools from Dialectical Behavior Therapy for managing intense feelings and improving coping skills. Choosing which approaches to use is collaborative; the therapist and client discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people maintain visual connection for relationship work, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can support quick check-ins or on-the-go coping. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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