Authentic Connection
Therapy in Weaverville, NC
Hi! I’m Emily. If you’re here, it’s probably because you’re curious about what I do.
I’m a therapist who helps people live life in full color. You might have been in grayscale for a really long time from the effects of:
long term stress
painful life experiences
the weight of grief and loss
a sense that life is happening to you and not the other way around.
Your mind feels cloudy, dim, and not at all clear. Underneath the surface, your emotions are muting brightness and highlighting anxiety, fear, pain, sadness, shame, and exhaustion.
Maybe life has you feeling stuck, lost, angry (even if that’s hard to admit), dissatisfied, tired, and disconnected from the people you love and yourself.
Listen. Your body is trying to talk to you.
It wants you to return to yourself, to reclaim who are you are in the midst of this life you’re living. If it’s honest, your body wants freedom and healing from the effects of your past:
trauma
chronic stress
limiting beliefs
isolation
loneliness
suffering
If you fear that you’ll never be free of what happened to you, that you’re too broken to be fixed, or if you don’t know who you’d be without the shades of gray that have taken over your rainbow, I am here to debunk those lies
The truth is that your life does have purpose despite (or because of) what you’ve been through. You can experience life as meaningful, satisfying, and worth living. I’ve learned that our bodies witness, absorb, and carry everything we go through in life. When you start to pay attention to your body and to listen to it, you will learn so much…about what you need, what you don’t need, and who you are. Full color means all the colors - that’s who you are and that’s who I’ll help you find.
Sharing your story with other humans is powerful.
Being seen, heard, and understood is invaluable.
Ways to work with me:
Groups
Starting soon. Connecting with other people leads to stress reduction and healing. Email for more information.
EMDR Intensives
Accelerated process for getting “unstuck” from challenges and trauma-related experiences.
Individual Therapy
Currently I have a waitlist for individual therapy clients. Email me here to be added to the list.
“ It all starts with waking up; waking up to what is real and authentic in and around us and what isn’t;
waking up to who we are and who we’re not;
waking up to what our bodies are expressing and what our minds are suppressing;
waking up to our wounds and our gifts;
waking up to what we have believed and what we actually value;
waking up to what we will no longer tolerate and what we can now accept;
waking up to the myths that bind us and the interconnections that define us;
waking up to the past as it has been, the present as it is, and the future as it may yet be;
waking up, most especially, to the gap between what our essence calls for and what “normal” has demanded of us.”
Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal
Let’s connect and find out what’s possible for you.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation call.
My office is in downtown Weaverville, with Asheville to the south and Mars Hill and Marshall to the north.
I serve all of North Carolina online.