About Emily
Emily Magusiak is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Pennsylvania with ten years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and trauma. She supports parents with parenting strains and people coping with major life changes.
She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help clients manage symptoms and build routines that fit daily life. Sessions are straightforward and goal-focused. Emily emphasizes strengths and works with each person to find useful steps forward.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people across the lifespan and with intellectual and developmental differences. She has particular experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and fertility or maternity loss challenges. She also has experience supporting people dealing with compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and grief.
Emily aims to make therapy collaborative. She invites clients to name what matters most and tries methods that match those goals. Progress is tracked in simple ways so adjustments can be made when needed.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. International clients can be seen when licensing and laws allow. Costs vary by location and follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session according to therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Emily uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. One approach helps people identify thoughts and behaviors that make symptoms worse, then practices small changes to improve daily functioning and mood. This method is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and stress management.Another approach centers on processing difficult experiences and reducing their ongoing impact. It helps people who are dealing with trauma, grief, or painful losses to make sense of their reactions and slowly regain control over daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and personal comfort. Plans are adjusted over time based on progress and feedback so the process stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are good for routine sessions that resemble in-person visits. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or when audio-only contact feels easier. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, support between sessions, or when writing helps a person process thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain ongoing contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
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- 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
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