About Emily
Emily Shiers is a licensed professional counselor in Mississippi with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps adults facing anxiety, depression, stress, and the everyday strain of parenting. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, addiction concerns, grief, and big life transitions.
She has spent many years working with clients involved with Child Protective Services who are seeking reunification. She has additional experience with people impacted by trauma, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood concerns, and forms of psychosis.
Background and approach
Emily adapts how she talks and plans care to match each person's situation. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. Emily aims to make sessions straightforward and useful, with strategies you can try between appointments.
She pays attention to what is working and adjusts the plan if needed. Emily brings a calm, respectful approach to difficult topics. She values honesty and practical problem-solving, and she works with each person at their own pace.
Her style is collaborative, and she encourages clients to shape the goals and pace of therapy. People who choose her often want straightforward help with parenting challenges, coping skills for anxiety or stress, support through grief, or assistance managing mood and addictive behaviors. She offers a range of session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Emily uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical skills and problem solving. One common approach centers on building coping skills - teaching concrete strategies for managing anxiety, stress, impulsivity, and day-to-day tasks so clients can handle difficult moments more effectively. Another approach emphasizes mood management and stabilization, helping people recognize patterns of mood change and develop routines and tools to reduce extremes and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different methods when needed, and adapt the plan so it fits your situation and preferences. This collaborative process helps find techniques that feel useful and realistic for your life.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for added flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when convenient, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing notes and short updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to keep up with regular check-ins.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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