About Emily
Emily Magusiak is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania with ten years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, trauma, grief, sleep problems, and parenting challenges. Emily also supports those coping with ADHD, relationship strain, anger, self-esteem struggles, and major life changes.
She favors a practical, down-to-earth style in sessions. Emily treats each person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
She listens first, then offers tools and steps that fit the person’s day-to-day life. Her background includes work across ages and needs, including people with developmental differences and those who have experienced adoption, foster care, or attachment concerns. She has particular experience with maternity loss, infertility, and the stress experienced by caregivers.
Sessions focus on clear goals and simple practices you can try between meetings. Emily helps people talk through decisions, manage overwhelming emotions, and set small changes that add up. Her approach aims to make coping feel more manageable and less lonely.
Emily holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW). She offers services to people in Pennsylvania and works with international clients as well. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How Emily’s approaches translate to online therapy
Many of the techniques Emily uses focus on practical skills people can apply right away. One approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and stress through short exercises and behavior changes that reduce overwhelm and improve sleep. Another approach centers on working through trauma and grief with step-by-step processing and grounding techniques that help people feel steadier in daily life.Finding the right method is a team effort. Emily collaborates with each person to learn what feels helpful and what does not. She adjusts tools and pacing based on the person’s goals, comfort level, and life demands so the work fits real routines.
Online formats make that teamwork easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and full session work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone wants to avoid being on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, do short updates, or use written exercises when a quick pause fits the day. These options aim to increase flexibility and make ongoing support more accessible for varied schedules and needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English