Emily Adler, LCSW, LICSW

Emily Adler is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, person-centered support. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and brings eight years of clinical experience to her work in Missouri. Emily speaks plain language and aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable for busy people.

She uses a client-centered stance that treats the person as the expert on their own life. Sessions focus on identifying strengths and building skills to handle stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Emily also helps people address trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, motivation struggles, and sleeping difficulties.

Emily draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try small changes that lead to different results. She uses solution-focused methods when clients want brief, goal-directed work to solve immediate problems. Trauma-focused approaches are used when the effects of past events are getting in the way of daily life.

Her background includes working with relationship concerns, grief, parenting challenges, addiction issues, and career stress. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care questions, blended family dynamics, caregiver strain, body image, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters.

Emily describes the work as collaborative and straightforward. She supports people who are ready to take steps toward clearer goals and more consistent coping. To begin, she asks clients to consider their priorities and the small changes that could make a real difference.

How Emily’s Approaches Translate Online

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths. Online sessions let the therapist listen and help you shape goals that matter to you, with an emphasis on collaboration and respect.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online work this often means practicing small experiments between sessions and reviewing results together to build new habits for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.

Trauma-focused therapy targets the ways past events affect day-to-day life and coping. When used online, the therapist and client move at a careful pace and focus on skills that reduce overwhelm and improve emotional regulation.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences to decide which methods fit best. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as needs evolve.

Confirm the available session formats before you book, since formats are not specified in the profile. Online work can make scheduling easier, reduce travel time, and allow short check-ins that fit a busy day. It can also let people use tools like worksheets and between-session practice more conveniently.