About Emma
Emma Henderschedt is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Connecticut. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, relationships, and self-esteem. Emma also supports people navigating career shifts, anger, and life changes.
She uses clear, practical methods in sessions. Emma blends attachment-based ideas with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses. She also uses EMDR for processing traumatic memories and mindfulness skills for grounding during hard moments.
How Emma works
Emma's background includes three years of professional practice. She has experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family stress, abandonment, and caregiver strain. She also addresses body image, isolation, and mood or panic-related struggles.
In sessions she works collaboratively. Emma helps people set small, doable goals and tries strategies together in the moment. She pays attention to how relationships shape current concerns and helps clients build new ways of relating and coping.
Her approach is practical and relationship-focused. People can expect focused talk, short exercises, and skills to use between meetings. Emma aims to make therapy feel useful and relevant to day-to-day life.
Emma lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches fit into online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand trust, closeness, and how they react in relationships. This can be useful for parenting concerns, blended family issues, and attachment struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into small steps. It helps people test new ways of thinking and build practical coping skills for anxiety, panic, and mood problems. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is a structured way to process traumatic memories. It can reduce the intensity of troubling memories and related reactions when trauma is a central concern. Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process may mix approaches over time as progress is made. Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and do longer sessions, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity between sessions.Start online instead of waiting
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