Em Scott (they/she)

I integrate DBT with talk therapy to help you better understand your emotions and build practical skills for navigating them. DBT focuses on mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and navigating relationships with other people. We’ll use what comes up in therapy to find skills that are useful in your everyday life. I offer DBT-informed talk therapy, not full-protocol DBT.

I work from a Family Systems lens, which means looking at how the relationships and patterns we grew up with shape who we are today. We often carry family roles, expectations, and ways of relating with us into adulthood, sometimes across generations. Therapy can help us understand where those patterns came from, which ones still serve you, and which ones you might want to change.

I work with adults experiencing PTSD and the lasting effects of trauma. My approach integrates traditional talk therapy with Brainspotting (BSP), a mind-body therapy that uses eye position and focused awareness to process trauma and emotions that can be difficult to access through talking alone. You will never be pushed to share things that feel too difficult to talk about.

My approach to treating anxiety starts with building awareness of how your mind and body interact, then learning skills for how to manage anxiety without letting it take over. Using a DBT-informed approach and through enhancing the mind-body connection, we'll explore the patterns, relationships, and experiences that may be keeping you stuck. We’ll also find practical tools that actually work for you that you can practice at home between sessions.

Using the Gottman Method for couples therapy, I help partners learn how to communicate more effectively, create repair, and reignite the friendship that binds their relationship together. I embrace all forms of relationships, whether monogamous or non-monogamous. I have a particular focus on helping partners navigate affairs and betrayal trauma, but I’m passionate about working with couples through all kinds of relationship challenges.

Brainspotting (BSP) is a mind-body therapy that uses eye position and focused awareness to explore creative blocks, emotions, traumatic memories, and body sensations that can be difficult to reach through talking alone. In session, I use a pointer to help you find an eye position connected to what you’re working through, allowing us to access and process what’s happening at a deeper, nervous-system level.