About Emilie
Victor Frankl once expressed that “Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Emilie is a Licensed Professional Counselor working with teenagers, adults, and families. Her professional career began with a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Drake University. She went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Clinical Community Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. Emilie then completed her US Professional Counseling License in 2012 while living and working in Seoul, South Korea.
Her experience in the mental health field spans all ages and populations. She spent many years in school-based counseling settings with nonprofit organizations to provide services to underserved communities in elementary, middle, and high schools. In residential treatment, Emilie provided individual, family, and group counseling to teenagers as part of their treatment plan for behavioral issues, recovery from childhood trauma, and undiagnosed Asperger’s. As a Military Family Life Counselor, she provided highly confidential mental health treatment to military service members and their families. She also served the adult expat community in a private practice setting while living in Seoul, South Korea.
When working with children, teenagers, adults, and families, her roots are in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. However, Emilie centers her approach for each client on their specific needs, drawing from many evidence-based modalities to create a personalized treatment for each person’s mental, emotional, and spiritual growth and freedom. She is currently working to incorporate nutrition and food as medicine into her mental health practice. She is also learning how to integrate psychedelic experiences in healing and hopes to include Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy soon.
Emilie has also spent years studying a variety of world religions and spiritual traditions. She brings this understanding into her work, meeting each person where they are spiritually, and creating a respectful, inclusive space for healing, whether clients identify with a specific faith, are questioning, or hold no particular belief.
In addition to serving the military community in a professional capacity, Emilie has personal experience as a former military spouse with many cross-country and international moves before settling into her new forever home in the Ozarks. Her childhood was spent as a Third Culture Kid in several states across the country. While uprooting was difficult, she discovered a passion for traveling to new places, experiencing new things, and meeting new people. Her soul finds healing in anything outdoors, including hiking, camping, kayaking/floating, exploring, and live music. On her days off, Emilie is building a homestead full of life and growth. Whether indoors or outdoors, she enjoys creating beauty in any form, experiencing everything life has to offer, and spending time with her husband, young daughter, farm animals and pets, family, and friends.