About Emily
Emily Hill is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strains, parenting challenges, and low self-esteem. She has nearly three decades of experience and focuses on practical steps that fit daily life. Emily uses clear goals and straightforward plans so parents and individuals can see progress.
She keeps sessions respectful and compassionate to make it easier to talk about hard things.
Background and approach
Emily blends approaches that focus on thoughts, practical solutions, and trauma when needed. She helps people break large problems into manageable steps and builds coping tools for everyday life. Conversations are goal-directed, with a treatment plan tailored to each person’s situation and a realistic time frame for progress.
Her background includes long-term work with birth parents, foster and adoptive parents, and families of children with disabilities. She also addresses abandonment, adoption and foster care topics, caregiver stress, communication and commitment issues, and struggles with isolation or life purpose. Emily draws on many years of hands-on experience to guide problem-solving and parenting support.
Sessions emphasize communication skills, setting boundaries, and rebuilding confidence after setbacks. She helps people practice new skills and measure small wins between meetings. The aim is steady improvement so daily life feels more manageable.
People who meet with Emily can expect a direct, compassionate style and an emphasis on practical tools. She works collaboratively to tailor goals and follow a clear plan toward better coping and more satisfying relationships.
How Emily’s Approaches Work Online
Emily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, and everyday stress because it focuses on small, practical experiments that change how you feel.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, short-term goals and build on what already works. These brief, focused conversations aim to find immediate steps you can take to improve communication, parenting, or coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your concerns, discuss options, and together decide which methods fit your goals and preferences. Plans may combine techniques and will be adjusted as you make progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper interaction helps. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not practical or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into work breaks, evenings, or other routines while keeping focus on skills and goal progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English