I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Master’s in Addictions Counselor with over 19 years of experience with counseling individuals, couples and families struggling with mental health, substance abuse, anger management and family violence issues. I have experience with individual and couples therapy and I have facilitated Family Violence Intervention Groups, Anger Management, and Substance Abuse treatment groups. I am an engaging, compassionate, thought provoking, change evoking counselor that believes that everyone has the ability to become better and greater. My approach is solution focused, client centered, and strengths-based drawing heavily from Cognitive Behavioral Theory. It would be my honor and pleasure to work with you as well as to assist you to move toward accomplishing your desired goals.
Additional areas of focus: Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Depression, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, Communication problems, Emptiness, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Self-love, Women's issues
Clinical approaches: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy
GA LCSW CSW004530
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Miss Emily is the best therapist anybody could ever ask for I have truly discovered myself a lot with her and I’m glad that she’s my therapist
Written on Dec 16, 2024 after therapy with Emily for 3 years and 6 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd
Emily is so kind and supportive. She is a great listener and offers fantastic advice. Always attentive and is great in couples counseling. Highly recommend
Written on May 05, 2023 after therapy with Emily for 1 year and 4 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, and coping with life changes
Emily is great, she is able to help me identify strengths to build me up when low, and give me relevant, practical coping skills that I can use outside of session.
Written on Jan 11, 2023 after therapy with Emily for 8 months on issues concerning depression, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, anger management, and coping with life changes
You are doing a wonderful job.
Written on Dec 14, 2022 after therapy with Emily for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, and compassion fatigue
Emily is kind and knowledgeable. I was very fortunate to have her become my therapist.
Written on Jul 19, 2022 after therapy with Emily for 10 months on issues concerning relationship issues, and intimacy-related issues
Emily Mclver is a great Therapist. She makes the transition into Therapy really smooth and she also takes the fear of Therapy away. She is very kind and knowledgeable and she is a great listener. I would definitely recommend her to others.
Written on Mar 02, 2022 after therapy with Emily for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, depression, self esteem, coping with life changes, and trauma and abuse