Emily Dalton

Emily believes therapy should be both compassionate and useful.

She helps clients understand their emotions and experiences while also developing skills they can use outside the therapy room. Her work incorporates principles and skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), including emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and healthier ways of navigating relationships.

For someone who feels as though emotions have become too intense — or who has spent years trying to push difficult feelings away — these skills can create a different way of living.

The goal isn’t to eliminate difficult emotions. It is to become better able to understand them, tolerate them, respond to them, and keep them from controlling your life.

One of Emily’s distinctive areas of experience is working with people whose emotional health has been affected by physical or neurological challenges.

As a Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS), Emily understands that recovery from an injury, illness, or neurological condition involves far more than what happens medically.

Chronic pain, brain injury, illness, disability, and other health changes can affect identity, relationships, work, independence, confidence, and the way someone imagined their future.

Sometimes the hardest part is that other people cannot see what has changed.

Emily helps clients work through the emotional and relational side of these experiences — including grief, frustration, anxiety, depression, fatigue, adjustment, and the challenge of building a meaningful life when life no longer looks quite the way it once did.

The effects of illness and injury rarely stop with one person.

Partners, parents, adult children, and other caregivers can find themselves carrying enormous responsibility while receiving very little space to talk about what the experience is doing to them.

Caregiving can include love and commitment while also bringing exhaustion, resentment, grief, fear, isolation, and burnout.

Emily provides caregivers with a place where they do not have to be the strong one for an hour — a place to process what they are carrying, develop healthier boundaries and coping strategies, and reconnect with their own emotional needs.

Emily also enjoys working with young adults navigating the complicated transition into adulthood.

College, careers, relationships, independence, identity, family expectations, and uncertainty about the future can create tremendous pressure. When anxiety, depression, chronic health concerns, or major life changes are added to that pressure, it can become difficult to know where to begin.

You do not have to wait until you are falling apart to talk with somebody.

Therapy can be a place to understand what is happening, develop stronger emotional skills, and begin moving toward the kind of life you want to build.

Emily brings warmth, steadiness, and practicality into the therapy room.

You will have space to tell your story without being rushed, but therapy will not simply be about talking. Together, you will identify patterns, understand what keeps getting in the way, develop new skills, and work toward meaningful changes in everyday life.

For some clients, that means learning to regulate intense emotions. For others, it means adapting to a life they did not expect. For others, it means finally addressing anxiety, depression, grief, burnout, or pain that they have been carrying alone.

Wherever you are starting, Emily will meet you there.