Emma is a white, queer, Jewish therapist, experienced group facilitator, and avid home cook. Emma completed a clinical social work degree and fellowship at the University of Chicago and has practiced in a variety of mental health care roles for over a decade. Emma offers a narrative, relational style to support people in accessing, understanding, and sharing themselves. This is helpful for people who experience chronic stress, dysregulation, overwhelm, despair, anxiety, frustration, and shame and have been disconnected from their inherent worthiness, intuition, and self esteem by the stress of their lives, mental health needs, and systemic marginalization and oppression.

Emma has completed training and enjoys incorporating Internal Family Systems, narrative therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and somatic experiencing and receives ongoing consultation and support. Emma maintains an active commitment to anti-oppressive and decolonized therapy practices through relationships, training experiences, community organizing, and art making.

Emma can incorporate guided mindful cooking exercises in sessions and is a seasoned kitchen companion helping clients build sustainable nourishment strategies, kitchen skills, and confidence. These offerings are optional and covered by insurance.

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Relevant Trainings:

• Internal Family Systems Institute: Level One

• Into the Body: Somatic Therapy with Tracy Jarvis

• Transforming Mental Health: Histories of Resistance and Cross Movement Strategies for a Liberatory Future with Noah Gokul and Nia Nelson

• Seeking Adaptive Strategies for Non-Binary Young Adults with Kai Lehocky

• Social Justice and Weight Stigma with Nancy Ellis-Ordway and Melinda Gronen

• Abolition in Social Work: Imagining New Modalities of Anti Racist Practice

• University of Chicago Contextual Behavioral Therapy Fellowship with Paul Holmes