About Emily
Emily Hand is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee. She focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, depressed, struggling with addiction, or managing the effects of trauma and grief. Emily also supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting challenges, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, career changes, and ADHD.
She takes a curious, interactive approach in sessions. Emily listens without judgment and works to understand each person's history and goals.
Background and approach
She centers respect, sensitivity, and compassion in the work and avoids stigmatizing labels. In practice she blends several methods to match a person's needs. She uses elements of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma-related work, cognitive behavioral techniques to address thinking and behavior patterns, and mindfulness-based skills to build coping and emotional regulation.
Sessions are shaped collaboratively so the plan fits what a person wants to change. Emily draws on experience with substance and behavioral addictions alongside broader mental health concerns. She aims to help people notice strengths, build resilience, and move toward practical change.
The focus is on small, doable steps that make daily life easier. Her work is grounded in the belief that the brain can heal and that people can find more fulfillment. She invites curiosity and courage in the process and offers steady support while clients try new ways of responding to hard situations.
How Emily’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take steps consistent with those values. It uses simple exercises to reduce avoidance and increase committed action, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practicing alternatives. It often uses short exercises and homework to build new habits and relieve symptoms like low mood, worry, and sleep trouble. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used for processing traumatic memories and related distress; it involves structured steps that can reduce the intensity of painful images and feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emily treats the choice of method as collaborative and will help people try strategies that match their needs and goals. She adapts techniques across sessions, checking in to see what helps and what to change so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy around work or parenting schedules and allow ongoing written check-ins between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to use therapeutic tools in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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