Mental Health Counseling
Emily Yuen, licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) offers her guidance as a mental health clinician from a person-centered approach. Emily infuses her 20 plus years in Traditional Chinese Medicine to approach mental wellness from a holistic perspective. She integrates evidence-based practices of mindfulness, meditation, guided visualization, and lifestyle medicine. Emily utilizes tools from Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), techniques from Dialectical behavioral therapy, and motivational interviewing to work with clients to help them discover their goals, values, strengths, and resiliencies. She enjoys helping them retrain their brains from limited beliefs and thinking distortions. Implementing tools from Gottman therapy for couples as well as Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Emily focuses on helping people validate and accept themselves and each other and find the right tools to move forward with more ease and joy in life. She incorporates Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to help people process and shake off trauma and reframe their story. Trained as an Anusara Inspired® yoga instructor she uses yoga as well as qi gong tools to help people release pain and old patterns and reset their nervous system to find healthier alignment.
Emily has a calling to support people facing LGBTQIA challenges, as well as people facing challenges from autism spectrum disorder and ADHD. She enjoys assisting people discover their passion and purpose in life, so they may live more radiantly.
See Emily’s Psychology Today profile for more about the styles of therapies she offers.