About Emily
Emily Meyers is a licensed therapist who centers somatic work alongside talk therapy. She brings 16 years of experience and uses both body-focused and conversation-based techniques to help people feel steadier. Emily practices in Missouri and offers sessions in English.
She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and depression. She also supports people with grief, addiction, ADHD, self-esteem, relationship and communication problems. Her practice includes work around chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image, and other life disruptions.
Background and approach
Emily blends somatic awareness with practical therapy approaches. Sessions may include helping a person notice how stress shows up in the body, then practicing simple skills to reduce overwhelm. She pairs that with cognitive and emotion-focused tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
Her background includes experience with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and somatic approaches. Emily uses these methods to help people build emotion regulation, increase resilience, and make choices that match their values. In sessions she keeps the pace at the client’s comfort level.
People learn skills for grounding, managing strong feelings, and changing behaviors that cause pain. The aim is steady progress and more reliable coping in daily life. To begin, someone chooses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules based on therapist availability.
The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Emily integrates somatic practices with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Client-Centered principles. Somatic work invites attention to physical sensations and breath to help reduce tension and interrupt overwhelm, which can be useful for trauma, chronic stress, and anxiety. ACT focuses on values-based action and accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while building small, workable steps toward a meaningful life. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental relationship where the person’s own goals guide the pace and direction of work.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions may shift over time from skills practice to exploration or from grounding techniques to values-driven planning, based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These options let people practice grounding and tracking sensations at home, review written resources, and check in between sessions when needed. The combination of somatic awareness and brief skills work can be adapted to these remote formats to support steady progress and increased coping in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Washington
- Languages
- English