About Emily
Emily Mckillip offers practical, evidence-based therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, and trauma. She is a California LPCC with eight years of clinical experience. Emily focuses on clear goals and steady progress rather than jargon.
She writes and talks in plain language so parents and busy people can quickly know what to expect. Emily takes a whole-person approach that considers thoughts, feelings, bodily reactions, and daily routines.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses proven techniques alongside creative tools to match each person’s needs. That can mean learning skills to cope with anxiety, addressing patterns that fuel addiction, or improving communication in strained relationships. She also helps people facing attachment and abandonment wounds, gender or identity questions, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.
Emily has experience supporting people with autism spectrum differences and intellectual disability, and she adapts strategies to fit how someone thinks and learns. Practical steps and steady tracking of progress are core parts of her work. Emily emphasizes collaboration.
She and the client set small, achievable goals and try tools in-session that can be used at home. Sessions can include problem-solving, skill practice, and reflection about relationship patterns and life purpose. Her tone is warm and direct.
Emily aims to create a calm space where people feel heard and can take clear steps forward toward better daily functioning and stronger connections.
How Emily Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Emily draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them for online work so people can practice new skills where they live. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Motivational techniques are used to strengthen a person’s own reasons for change, which is helpful for addictions and impulse-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Emily collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and how they prefer to work. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans if a technique isn’t helping or a different pace is needed.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, homework prompts, and ongoing encouragement between sessions. These formats make therapy easier to fit into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English