About Emma
Emma Cott is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist (LCMFT) practicing in Kansas. She brings 12 years of experience and a calm, direct style to sessions. Emma aims to meet people where they are and help them take practical steps toward feeling better.
She focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and parenting strain. She also works with concerns such as addictions, body image, eating and sleeping problems, self-esteem, and career stress.
How Emma works
Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, codependency, and identity and sexuality matters including BDSM and kink culture. Emma uses a mix of approaches chosen to match each person’s needs.
She draws on client-centered methods to follow the client's lead, cognitive behavioral work to change unhelpful patterns, dialectical behavior strategies for emotion regulation, existential ideas about meaning, and EMDR for trauma processing. She explains interventions plainly and helps people try tools between sessions. Her experience includes years in community mental health and later independent practice.
That background shaped her work with crisis situations and with people navigating complex life changes. She describes her style as warm and supportive while also encouraging action when clients are ready. Emma believes acceptance is the first step to change and works collaboratively to set realistic goals.
To start, she asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Emma lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Emma works with
The areas below are the ones Emma selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kansas |
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Online support options
How Emma’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work means the therapist follows the client’s lead and focuses on what matters most to them. This approach helps people feel heard and helps sessions stay relevant to real problems like relationships, parenting, or career stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is about spotting patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and trying practical alternatives. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and many everyday struggles because it gives clear skills to practice between sessions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused approach that helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional charge. It can be part of work on trauma, abuse, dissociation, and related symptoms when the timing feels right.
Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose approaches that fit their goals, comfort, and pace. Goals are set together and adjusted as progress unfolds, so therapy stays practical and focused.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from a distance. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging offer shorter, on-the-go check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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