About Emily
Emily Schmid is a licensed professional counselor in Virginia with nine years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, pregnancy and postpartum transitions, grief, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem and intimacy. Emily uses straightforward, practical conversation to help people find relief and clearer next steps.
She centers the person in the room and treats them as the expert on their life while offering tools and emotional support.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused on real problems and doable changes rather than jargon. Her approach draws on attachment-based work to look at how relationships shape feelings, and on cognitive-behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thoughts and replace them with alternatives. She also incorporates emotion-focused techniques and mindfulness skills to help regulate strong feelings in the moment.
Emily pays close attention to life transitions like becoming a parent, pregnancy, adoption and foster care situations, and caregiver stress. She helps people who are navigating fertility concerns, postpartum mood changes, and other reproductive-related challenges to name what they need and make a plan. People who come to Emily can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through hard topics.
She offers practical coping skills, communication work, and a collaborative process to figure out what helps next. Her style is warm, direct, and goal-oriented while still valuing each person’s story.
Attachment, thinking patterns, and online care
Emily often uses attachment-based ideas to look at how close relationships shape emotions and expectations. That work helps people understand why they react strongly in relationships and teaches alternative ways to connect and calm down when conflict or distance occurs.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood challenges, and for building practical habits that reduce distress over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emily will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining relational, thinking-focused, and emotion-focused strategies and checking in regularly to see what is helping.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can provide shorter check-ins or skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, childcare, or other responsibilities while still getting consistent therapeutic support.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English