Key details
- CredentialsLPC
- LicenseLPC, Texas / 80439
- NPI1770235160
- Experience5 years
- LanguagesEnglish
- LocationTexas
About
- CBT methods
- Mindfulness practice
- Solution-focused work
About Emily
Emily Benton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with five years of experience. She focuses on common, painful problems people bring to therapy, including trauma and abuse, addiction, anxiety, depression, and anger. Her work also covers parenting challenges, relationship and communication problems, grief, and major life changes.
Emily uses practical, evidence-informed methods in sessions. She combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses. She also draws on solution-focused and trauma-focused approaches when the situation calls for them.
Sessions move at a steady pace. Emily helps people identify clear, manageable goals and then works through small steps to reach them. For someone who snaps at a partner, struggles with workplace frustration, or carries long-standing resentment, she offers tools for regulating emotion and repairing interactions.
Her background includes work with adoption and foster care concerns, veterans and armed forces issues, intellectual disability, and hospice and end-of-life counseling. Emily also supports people coping with compassion fatigue, career shifts, and young adult transitions.
All sessions are conducted in English and follow her LPC scope of practice in Texas. Prospective clients are asked to review the practice's intake information and confirm the current session options before booking.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and a scheduled first session are used to set goals and plan next steps.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a practical working relationship. It helps people clarify what matters and set workable goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and gives concrete exercises to test new ways of responding. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process past traumatic events carefully, using steps to reduce overwhelm and increase coping skills.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and recommend which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted as needed based on how interventions feel and what’s actually helpful in day-to-day life.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current online session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, require less transit time, and allow short check-ins when a full in-person visit is difficult. They also make it possible to practice skills in familiar routines, such as using mindfulness exercises during a break or trying a new communication strategy after a workday.
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Experience
5+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, addictions, anger, relationship and family concerns, parenting, grief, and life changes.
What is her general therapy style?
She uses a client-centered approach paired with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques, focusing on practical steps and clear goals.
How much experience does she have?
She has five years of clinical experience working with adults on a range of issues including trauma recovery and major life transitions.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas and provides services under that license.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the US work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; she works with clients within Texas under her LPC credential.
How does payment or cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; exact rates depend on your situation.
How do I get started with scheduling?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session to set goals and plan next steps.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.