About Emma
Emma Henderschedt is a licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem. She also supports clients navigating relationship issues, anger, career concerns, and life changes. Emma uses clear, practical approaches so conversations feel useful from the first session.
She brings three years of clinical experience to her work and draws on methods that include attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify concrete patterns, test small changes, and build skills that fit everyday life. Emma keeps language straightforward and goals focused so progress is easy to notice. Her background includes clinical work with a range of people facing parenting, adoption and foster care questions, blended family challenges, and issues around abandonment and attachment.
She has experience supporting people with mood disorders, panic attacks, PTSD-related concerns, and disruptive mood patterns in young people. That experience informs a flexible way of working with each person’s history. In sessions Emma often combines present-focused skill building with attention to past relationship patterns that still cause pain.
She uses practical exercises, mindful awareness, and trauma-focused strategies when needed. The aim is to reduce distress and help people feel more capable in day-to-day life. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows the therapist’s availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Emma uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and test new ways of reacting. CBT often includes practical exercises and simple behavioral experiments that can reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships influence current patterns. This approach helps when problems repeat in close relationships or when people feel stuck by old fears of abandonment or connection.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Emma works with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That collaboration means strategies are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging fits short check-ins or on-the-go support. These options let people work on parenting stress, trauma processing, or mood management from different locations and at times that suit their life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English