Living Well Counseling Center Director

Hi, I’m Emily! I’m a relationship and sex therapist!

I have studied relationships my entire life; as a curiosity, a calling, and now a career. I believe sexual health isn’t about performance, it’s about feeling safe enough to be real and free enough to be yourself. My work lives in the space where love and safety meet, and where your body, your sexuality, and your relationships get to have a voice.

I take a holistic approach to sexual health and frequently work with concerns such as desire differences, intimacy and closeness, sexual pain, sexual trauma, infidelity, betrayal trauma, pornography or sex addiction, medical or cancer-related impacts on sexuality, and other issues where the body, heart, and relationship meet. I also have a passion for working with women in perimenopause/menopause find joy in the process! I bring a deep respect for body wisdom into the room. At the end of the day, I help people come home to themselves and to each other.

I also love teaching and serve as an LMFT Supervisor, mentoring Master’s Student Interns and Registered Counseling Associates. Supervision is a collaborative; relational process grounded in restoring love and safety to the therapist and the relationships they serve. This work continually deepens my own practice and I am grateful for its reciprocal nature.

Outside of work, I am enjoying my life as a new empty nester with my husband, Finn. We share love for our blended family of seven children, one daughter-in- law, and two darling grandchildren. In my free time I love to dance! When in doubt dance it out!

Credentials:
M.A. in Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling — George Fox
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist — Oregon
Sex Therapist and Sex Educator Certificate — University of Michigan
Restoration Therapist Level 1, 2 & 3 in progress

Supervisors:
Dr. Terry Hargrave , Ph. D., LMFT
Dr. Neil “Nelly” Cannon , Ph.D., LMFT, CST-S
Dr. Jeffery White, Ph.D., M.A., M.Div.