About Emily
Emily Shiers works with adults who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She speaks plainly and helps people find steady ways to manage stress, parenting strain, grief, mood shifts, and addiction-related concerns. Emily is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and she brings twenty years of experience to each conversation.
Emily focuses on practical steps. Sessions often include clear strategies for coping, short-term goals, and ways to make daily life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
She meets people where they are and tailors the pace to each person’s needs. Her background includes work with adults involved with child protective services who are seeking reunification. She also has experience supporting people with psychosis and other complex presentations.
That experience informs how she plans care and sets realistic, achievable steps. Emily values compassion, respect, and direct communication. She helps people sort through family conflict, parenting challenges, relationship stress, and mood conditions like depression or bipolar concerns.
She also addresses issues such as ADHD, trauma, grief, and substance use. In sessions she listens first, then builds a plan together. The focus is on what will make life better right now and what skills will help down the road.
Her approach aims to empower clients to handle change and to rebuild a sense of control.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Emily draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and structure. One common approach she uses teaches concrete coping skills for anxiety, stress, and daily mood management - practical tools clients can use between sessions to reduce overwhelm. Another approach emphasizes behavioral strategies to help with addiction, impulsivity, and building healthier routines; this often includes setting small, measurable steps and tracking progress together.Choosing the right method happens together. Emily will talk through options with each person, consider goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps people find what actually fits their life and needs.
Online therapy offers a few practical benefits for this work. Video calls let the therapist and client connect face to face for teaching skills and checking in on progress. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, and keeping momentum on goals. These formats increase flexibility and make it easier to fit support into a busy schedule.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English