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 received training to incorporate creative applications of somatics, narrative therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Internal Family Systems Therapy. Emma maintains an active commitment to anti-oppressive and decolonized therapy practices through relationships, training experiences, community organizing, and art making.

Note that while you can find Emma practicing this therapeutic philosophy in the kitchen, this is not a required part of individual work and Emma enjoys exploring each person’s preferred care and growth practices.

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