About Emily
Emily Standridge is a Pennsylvania licensed clinical social worker with eight years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She approaches the work with respect for each person's strengths and story.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step easier to take. Emily listens closely and focuses on practical strategies that fit into day-to-day life.
How Emily works
Sessions are a space to talk through current problems, notice patterns, and try small changes that can make a real difference. She works collaboratively, helping people set clear goals and check progress along the way. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including grief, intimacy issues, sleeping problems, parenting stress, ADHD, and addiction.
She also supports people navigating body image, alternative sex culture and kink-related issues, chronic illness or pain, and caregiver stress. Emily brings experience working with trauma, dissociation, domestic violence, and family of origin problems. Emily offers a straightforward approach that balances understanding and action.
She helps people build coping skills, improve communication, and manage overwhelming emotions. Progress looks different for everyone, and she adjusts the pace to match each person's needs. Sessions are delivered online by video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Emily practices in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English. To begin, a short matching questionnaire connects people to her, followed by scheduling based on availability.
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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches work online
Emily uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional safety. One common approach involves identifying thought and behavior patterns that cause distress and testing new ways of responding to them. This helps with anxiety, depression, and everyday stress by giving clear steps to try between sessions.Another approach centers on processing trauma and building skills to manage intense emotions. It blends careful pacing with grounding and coping strategies so people can face difficult memories without becoming overwhelmed. This method often helps with trauma, dissociation, and recovery from abuse.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods that match needs and adjust them as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for a full session and nonverbal cues, phone calls can fit into a short break, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other demands.
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