Specializing in Couples, Infidelity, Postpartum Mood Disorders, Infertility, Trauma, EMDR/ART
Credentials: MA, LMFT, MPH, PMH-C
UAMFT APPROVED SUPERVISOR
Emily is the founder and co-owner of New Beginnings Counseling Group. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, she is passionate about helping couples strengthen their relationships. She works with a wide range of concerns, including depression and anxiety, conflict resolution, communication difficulties, life transitions, infidelity and betrayal, sex and intimacy issues, and rebuilding trust. Emily is committed to teaching couples how to improve communication, build emotional intimacy, and manage conflict more effectively in order to foster deeper and more meaningful connections.
In addition to her work with couples, Emily specializes in women’s mental health, with a particular focus on reproductive and maternal mental health. Her expertise includes postpartum depression and anxiety, infertility, life transitions (such as motherhood and menopause), trauma, codependency, and grief and loss related to miscarriage and stillbirth.
Emily draws upon her education, training, and personal life experiences to provide clients with empathy, insight, and compassionate support. She believes these qualities are essential in helping clients find hope, healing, and transformation. As Emily has expressed, “Seeing lives change is the greatest and most satisfying aspect of what I do.”
Education & Training
Emily earned her Master of Arts (MA) in Marriage and Family Therapy from Indiana Wesleyan University, graduating with honors. She also holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Hawaii, where she was nominated into the National Honorary Society of Public Health. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Family Science with a minor in Psychology from Brigham Young University.
Her advanced training includes certification in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C), EMDR/ART, infertility counseling, an externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Levels 1 & 2 of the Gottman Method. She has also completed professional development in supporting clients through pregnancy loss, birth trauma, grief and loss, infidelity, mindfulness, ADHD, and addictions.
Emily is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an Approved Supervisor in the State of Utah. She is also in the final stages of becoming an AAMFT Approved National Supervisor. In addition, she is an active member of the Utah Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, a Clinical Fellow of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT), and a member of both Postpartum Support International (PSI) and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM).
Therapeutic Approach
Emily takes a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach, drawing from Family Systems Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Person-Centered Therapy (PCT), EMDR/ART, and Structural Therapy. She also integrates attachment theory, motivational interviewing, and positive psychology in her work with individuals, couples, and families.
Interests/Hobbies
Emily has been married for over 34 years and is the proud mother of two sets of twins. More recently, she has embraced the joy of becoming a grandmother. In her free time, she enjoys learning and teaching, traveling, camping, going to the beach, reading, music, and walking. She treasures time with family and friends and is actively involved in her faith and community service.