About Emily
Emily Kissner uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques paired with art-informed methods to help people manage complex emotional challenges. She is known for a practical, down-to-earth style that breaks big problems into manageable steps. Emily holds a master's degree in art therapy and practices in Illinois as an LCPC.
She works from a feminist framework and affirms LGBTQA+ identities while being aware of polyamory, kink, and sex work issues. Emily focuses on concerns such as family stress, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, career questions, and coaching for life transitions.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and chronic illness or pain. Sessions often address communication problems, codependency, commitment and control issues, and body image struggles. Her approach blends talking therapy with creative techniques.
Clients can expect straightforward tools for coping, clearer thinking about relationships, and ways to practice new patterns between sessions. Art-based activities are used when they help someone access feelings that are hard to name in words. Emily has practiced for 12 years and brings that experience to the room without jargon.
She aims to make therapy useful and understandable from the first visit. People who value practical strategies alongside reflective work may find her approach helpful. Emily offers support in English and accepts international clients.
Before booking, confirm current session options and scheduling details so arrangements match personal needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Emily draws on evidence-based psychotherapy techniques to address symptoms like anxiety, depression, and trauma. These approaches focus on identifying unhelpful patterns, practicing new ways of thinking and behaving, and developing concrete coping skills that can be used between sessions.She also integrates art therapy methods to help people express feelings that are hard to put into words. Art-informed exercises can include simple drawing or creative assignments that reveal patterns in relationships, body image, or self-worth. These tools often help when talk alone feels limited.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and adapt methods as needs change. Together they decide which techniques - traditional talk work, skill-focused interventions, or art-based work - fit best for the situation.
Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm the available online options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, offer a shorter check-in when time is tight, and allow creative exercises to be completed and reviewed between sessions. Licensed professionals can tailor pacing and homework to what works in a virtual setting.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English