Emily Salkever-Scott , LPC, LCMHC

Emily Salkever-Scott is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with seven years of clinical experience. She brings a trauma-informed, person-centered outlook to her work and approaches change with a hopeful and practical mindset. Emily combines evidence-based strategies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with a supportive, strengths-focused stance to help people move toward the outcomes they value.

Her practice concentrates on a broad range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, stress, addiction, and challenges related to life transitions. She also supports work on self-esteem, parenting, sleep difficulties, career concerns, and conditions such as bipolar disorder and ADHD. Emily addresses relational patterns like attachment and abandonment and brings sensitivity to racial and cultural issues when they arise in therapy.

Emily emphasizes collaboration and tailors treatment to each person’s goals and preferences. With training in approaches that prioritize practical coping skills and emotional processing, she aims to help individuals regain trust, manage difficult emotions, and take steps toward the life they want. Her style is positive, compassionate, and focused on helping clients identify and enact meaningful change.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support and Growth

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT helps people clarify their values and take committed action even when difficult thoughts and feelings are present. It supports work on stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions by combining acceptance strategies with practical behavior change.)

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding how early relationships shape current patterns in intimacy and trust. This approach is useful for addressing relationship difficulties, abandonment concerns, and attachment issues by exploring relational patterns and building healthier ways of connecting.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT is a skills-oriented approach that helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is effective for anxiety, depression, anger management, and many day-to-day coping challenges by teaching concrete strategies to reduce distress.)

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Emily works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods align with their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they explore which strategies feel most helpful and adjust the plan over time to support meaningful progress.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles and needs. These options make it easier to maintain consistency in therapy, access care from different locations, and use formats that feel most comfortable for each person while working with licensed professionals and therapists.