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Emily Hester-McCullough is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor, based in Colorado and Washington, who works with adults 18-64, with a focus on women's issues, anxiety and relationship issues. Many of her clients have found they struggle to feel connected in their relationships or at peace in their daily lives. Emily is particularly sensitive to clients facing moments of transition, like a move to the city, job loss, burn out, or breakup, when the delicate balance can seem to tremble, and symptoms of anxiety, depression, and self-doubt can emerge.
Emily's approach is rooted in Relational Psychodynamics, Client Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy that focuses on helping clients understand how their family of origin influences their thinking patterns and emotional responses towards others and creates unhealthy patterns in relationships. She works to help clients understand their response to current circumstances, and begin to tolerate distress and understand their past in order to make changes int he future and choose to respond rather than react to triggers and in the face of change.
Emily is focused on ensuring that her clients see real progress: her style is interactive, non-judgmental, and positions clients as the experts on where they are now, and where they want to go. A trauma-informed therapist, Emily is sensitive to the influence of past experiences on present challenges, and works closely with clients to reframe the narrative of their life in a way that increases self-confidence and compassion.
Emily’s first priority in starting with a new client is ensuring that they feel safe, heard, and like an equal partner in the therapeutic process. As a seasoned telehealth provider, she offers the convenience of remote sessions to help make therapy a core component of your self-care calendar.
Anxiety - Coping with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety); sudden and intense feelings of panic (panic disorder)
Attachment issues - Development of effective relational and communication skills; insight into family attachment patterns;fostering healthy family relationships.
Couples counseling - Addressing relationship challenges and life transitions; strengthening communication and feelings of security, desire, connection, and love
Life transitions - Coping with difficult or impactful life changes, such as moving to a new area, relationship transitions, child rearing, or career changes; learning self-care to better manage resulting stress
Relationship issues - Understanding one’s wants and needs in relationships; exploring patterns of interaction, addressing concerns, and strengthening satisfaction in relationships and dating