Emily received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Virginia, and then completed her Master’s in Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine from Boston University’s School of Medicine. She received clinical experience working with trauma patients with Boston Medical Center’s Community Violence Response Team within the Trauma Surgical Department for my practicum, where she provided short term trauma-informed individual counseling, psychoeducation, and brief case management for seeking longer term care for the victims or family of the victims. She later did her clinical internship at Boston Medical Center’s Child and Adolescents Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic and saw clients with a range of different diagnoses from different anxiety disorders to schizophrenia. She used different interventions such as ACT, CBT, psychoeducation, play therapy, etc.

Emily has also dedicated a large portion of her time during her undergraduate and graduate years towards research. She works on trauma-focused research topics on minority groups, like how COVID-19 affected Black therapists, anxiety in Asian-Americans due to acculturation and discrimination, and people with eating/feeding disorders. She is passionate about continuing research around trauma, but especially minority groups to fill the gap in the research field.

Emily is also a registered yoga instructor and is working towards an 800-hr yoga therapy certification.

Emily excels at working with: Individual, teen (14+) & adults.

Evidence-based and trauma-informed interventions rooted in Multicultural counseling, Person-Centered, Existential, Transdiagnostic processes, ACT/DBT/CBT and Family Systems Frameworks. She also teaches Yoga Therapy Classes right here at Serengeti Wellness.