licensed mental health counselor. author. podcast host.

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Emily holds a Masters Degree in Christian Counseling from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, along with a Bachelors Degree majoring in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has further trained in EMDR, which is a trauma based approach to therapy to help clients reprocess the challenging thoughts that surface out of the traumatic experiences in their life. Her most recent training has been through the Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) to bring the values from EFT into her couples sessions. She also holds a certificate in Telehealth training which allows her to provide both in-person and virtual sessions with professionalism. In addition, she has training in the Prepare and Enrich Couples program.

While I am a Christian faith based person, and I work with many Christian clients and couples, I also work with people who are questioning their faith, as well as a diverse group of individuals who may have a different faith than I do, or no faith at all. I extend services from a place of compassion and non judgment.

Emily can help you with a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, relationship problems, stress management, and more. Her focus is to help you get unstuck from the places keeping you from moving forward in healing. Emily will work with you to develop a treatment plan that meets your unique needs and goals. 

I offer clients flexibility in the location of services provided. I provide in-person sessions at my home office near Charlotte, NC, while also conducting the majority of individual and group services via virtual options.

The cost of counseling services at Inner Freedom Initiative is determined by the length of sessions offered. Fees for 60 or 90 minute sessions are listed on the Services page on the website.

This is my most asked question and my initial response is always, "As long as it takes for you to gain safety and healing." This process varies among individuals and couples and I want to honor that healing can happen in layers and among different time periods. With that said, I do understand that for the sake of financial planning and time scheduling it can be important to have an estimated time when getting started. I encourage clients to estimate between 10-16 sessions and then reassess where they are and how they are feeling at that point.

For the business organization or church who would like to provide financial assistance to the person or employee you are referring to therapy, you are welcome to do so if that is acceptable for the client. It is important to note that regardless of who pays for therapy, all client sessions are strictly confidential, thus no information will provided to the referrring party without written signed consent from the client.