About Emily
Emily Keehn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and life transitions. She works with adults and brings four years of clinical experience to each session. Emily aims for direct, calm conversations that focus on practical next steps.
She uses a trauma-aware and skills-based approach. Sessions tend to focus on building tools for emotion regulation, communication, and coping with change. Emily pays attention to how physical health, caregiving responsibilities, and finances affect day-to-day wellbeing.
Background and approach
Clients often address a mix of concerns like grief, compassion fatigue, addictions, relationship patterns, and difficulties with self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, fertility worries, guilt, impulsivity, and career stress. Military-related issues and veteran matters are part of her experience.
Emily blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive and mindfulness strategies to help people notice patterns and try new behaviors. She also draws on client-centered and dialectical skills to keep sessions grounded and practical. The aim is to leave each session with one or two clear steps to try between meetings.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Emily listens for what matters most to the person in front of her, then helps set realistic goals. Sessions are intended to feel respectful and focused on real-life changes people can use right away.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. It focuses on building a meaningful life while learning to live alongside difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches straightforward skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to decide which methods to try first based on goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions can blend elements from different approaches so the plan fits the individual rather than forcing a single method. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and feel more like an in-person meeting. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins, brief coaching, and a way to keep momentum between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or treatment schedules while still practicing the same therapeutic skills used in person.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English