Emily is an Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) working in private practice at Grow Counseling. Emily specializes in working with adults and teens with clinical issues including anxiety, depression, difficulty with life transitions, disabilities, and chronic illness. Her certification reflects her passion for improving the quality of life for individuals with mental health concerns impacted by disabilities and chronic health conditions. Believing that each client is a unique individual, Emily uses a collaborative approach to determine a specific treatment plan and techniques best suited to help her client’s reach their goals. She strives to equip her clients with the tools needed to address the unique, ongoing challenges of living with mental health concerns. Emily addresses both the mental, physical, and spiritual components of wellness to help clients improve both their daily functioning and their overall quality of life. Emily’s passion for working with these populations was fostered by her experience working with traumatic brain injury survivors and her work with transplant patients. Her focus on rehabilitation provided Emily with the opportunity to integrate her own passion for athletics into her work with athletes at both the collegiate and professional level. An Atlanta native, Emily earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to that, she received her undergraduate degree in psychology and nonprofit studies from Auburn University.