I’m Emily (she/they) and I am a licensed marriage and family therapist (CA #135147). I became a therapist because I’ve been where you are. Throughout my adolescence and young adult life I struggled with getting my needs met, finding connection and feeling safe within myself and the world around me. I spent so much of that time hiding. Hiding my queerness, the shame I carried from my past, my insecurities and my humanness. When I finally decided to make a commitment to myself and start my own therapy, I remember feeling afraid that it was too late. I felt so stuck in my hiding and the comfort of the narrative I had carried for so long that I wondered if I was too broken to heal. To my surprise, I wasn’t. Through my time in therapy I have been given an opportunity to write a new narrative for myself that’s filled with hope and compassion instead of fear and shame. I won’t lie, therapy can feel scary and hard, and so I believe you deserve a therapist who helps you navigate all of the ups and downs of this process without judgment — I hope I can be that therapist for you!