Works with
- Anger
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
How Emily works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Emily
Emily Benton is a licensed professional counselor who uses a person-centered approach to help people manage strong emotions and life stressors. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to reduce anger, anxiety, and day-to-day overwhelm. Emily works with adults across Texas and holds an LPC credential.
Her work often centers on trauma and abuse recovery, addiction, and coping with big life changes. She pays attention to how past events affect current relationships and behavior and helps people identify small shifts that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented so progress feels measurable. Emily brings five years of clinical experience to sessions. That time includes supporting people through grief, career transitions, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
She also has experience with adoption and foster care concerns, intellectual disability, and hospice and end-of-life counseling. Therapy with Emily blends client-centered listening with practical methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work. Mindfulness and trauma-focused tools are used when they fit a person’s needs.
She aims to help people build skills they can use between sessions. People looking for online options will find video, phone, live chat, and text messaging available. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Emily communicates in English and works with adults across Texas.
What Emily works with
Everything Emily lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Emily's practice.
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Approaches Emily lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a supportive relationship. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people find their own direction, which is useful for issues like self-esteem, relationship concerns, and navigating life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It breaks problems into manageable steps and teaches specific skills to reduce anxiety, manage anger, and address mood symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emily will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. That means trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and visual connection, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, live chat and texting work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make scheduling and maintaining momentum more convenient for people with varied routines.
Questions people ask about Emily
What concerns does this therapist commonly address?
Areas of focus include trauma and abuse, anger, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and family issues, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
What is the general therapy style used in sessions?
Sessions combine client-centered listening with practical approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused work to create tools clients can use daily.
What kind of experience does the therapist have?
The clinician has five years of experience providing counseling, including work with people facing adoption-related concerns, intellectual disability, hospice and end-of-life matters, and veteran issues.
Where is the therapist based and what are the credentials?
The therapist is licensed in Texas as an LPC, and provides services to people located in Texas.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can clients outside the United States work with this therapist?
International clients are not currently accepted; services are provided to people in Texas.
What session formats are offered online?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does billing and starting therapy work?
Sessions use a subscription model that varies with location and therapist scheduling and can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.