Services

Individual Therapy

Emily specializes in supporting individuals by emphasizing the therapeutic relationship and individual needs. These 1:1 sessions are tailored to exploring and understanding your perspective while focusing on adequate support and clinical goals. Through personalized treatment planning and practical strategies, the aim is to help you feel more self-aware, find confidence, and your inner-strength.

Family/Couples Therapy

With extensive training in Eco-Systemic Structural Family Therapy, Emily enjoys helping families and couples strengthen their relationship dynamics. Through improving communication, conflict resolution, and promoting empathetic listening, Emily will collaborate with you and your loved one(s) to promote more nurtured interactions. In these sessions, you'll dedicate focus to identifying and breaking the negative cycles you may find yourselves in to then build more positive connections with those you love.

Fam/Couples Therapy

Teen Therapy (Ages 12-17)

Empowering young people with essential coping skills and resilience is a key focus of Emily's experience in supporting adolescent clients. Emily is dedicated to equipping teens with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate inevitable emotional challenges and establish a strong sense of self. Through a relaxed and educational approach, treatment goals include strengthening your teenager's self-esteem and promoting physical and emotional safety to encourage positive connection within themselves and with others.

Adolescent Therapy

Specialties

Anxiety

Our mind and body works hard to keep us safe, and anxious thoughts play an important role in that. An increase in alertness, fear, and even physical signs, such as a rapid heart rate are all intentional signals to look out for a threat- which may or may not be real. In therapy, we will identify patterns of your anxiety while emphasizing a self-care routine and enhancing your coping strategies. You will learn tools to recognize and cope with natural anxiety while challenging harmful thought patterns that fuel the more troubling anxiousness. Through minimizing symptoms and creating strengthened awareness, you'll be on your way to feeling more in control of your thoughts and reactions.

Life Transitions

Change is inevitable and will occur plenty of times throughout our lives- planned and unplanned. Therapy is available during a difficult change can be an effective, healthy way to navigate transitions as smoothly as possible. Through learning and understanding which coping strategies work best for you, exploring how the transition is impactful to your life, and finding acceptance to move forward, having a non-judgmental space which allows you to fully express the range of emotions you may be feeling is so valuable.

Processing Trauma

Trauma

Trauma is defined not by the events themselves, but by how these experiences affect your daily life. The impact of trauma can be profound, often leading to feelings of anxiety, shame, and overwhelm. To participate in counseling in which there is a trauma-informed approach acknowledges the psychological, physiological, and emotional toll of the distress. There is no one-size-fits-all path to healing, though through a compassionate and sensitive therapeutic relationship, the path becomes less intimidating. With Emily Bentz Counseling, creating a safe and empathetic space where individuals can process their traumatic experience(s), develop healthy coping mechanisms, and work towards reclaiming a sense of safety and well-being is highly prioritized.

Traumatic experiences can include, but are not limited to: physical/sexual/psychological abuse, accidents, crime, natural disasters, medical illness, discrimination, etc.

Please be aware that in a virtual therapy practice setting, it is common practice for clinicians to evaluate risk and may refer a client to in-person services or a higher level of care if they pose a safety risk to themselves or others.