About Emily
Emily Altman is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado with eight years of clinical experience. She works with individuals and couples on common life stressors like anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and career struggles. Emily aims to meet people where they are and build practical steps forward.
Her style is direct and compassionate. She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them test new ways of relating and coping.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and small experiments to change day-to-day habits that cause distress. Emily often helps people sort challenges tied to attachment and abandonment concerns. She also supports those dealing with blended family strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and fallout from separation or divorce.
Work around communication problems and codependency is a common part of her practice. She supports people working through feelings of emptiness, low self-esteem, or trouble committing to decisions. Career frustration and motivation problems are addressed with practical planning and skill building.
Emily tailors each plan so sessions match what an individual actually needs. Therapy with her moves at a steady, understandable pace. She collaborates on a treatment plan and adjusts it as progress is made.
Her goal is to make therapy useful in everyday life, with tools people can apply between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Emily uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach emphasizes understanding attachment and abandonment patterns to improve relationship communication and trust. This helps people notice old reactions and try new ways of connecting that reduce conflict and isolation.Another approach targets stress, anxiety, and motivation by teaching concrete skills for managing difficult thoughts and behaviors. These sessions include step-by-step strategies for coping with worry, building confidence, and making career or life changes feel more manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their goals and preferences. Together they create a plan and adjust techniques as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls allow a fuller face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited. Short check-ins work well through chat or text when scheduling around work or caregiving. These options help fit therapy into busy days and different lifestyles.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English