Emily Grossmann, LMFTA

My work is always based in a social justice & anti-oppression framework; above all, I hope to help my clients find their agency and see themselves as inherently valuable, independent of their ability to be “productive”.  Culture provides scripts and templates for how people “should” be, and I believe that identifying how these scripts might repress our authentic selves is important in the journey to free ourselves from expectations that hold us back.  As a queer-identifying person, I particularly enjoy working with queer and gender nonconforming adults and adolescents and always work from a health at every size (HAES) approach.  

When working with individuals, I use elements of CBT, mindfulness, and narrative therapy to help clients map out and restructure the stories of their lives. Each client has different needs, so I customize my interventions to the individual or system as I learn from them about their lived experience.

When working with partners and families, I am primarily informed by attachment and family systems theory, and use emotionally focused techniques and interventions (EFT). In each session, I focus on patterns of interaction that people often fall into and in-the-moment emotions to help couples and families create new ways of interacting and understanding each other.