Emily Hand, LPC

Emily Hand is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship issues. She centers practical, respectful care and aims to meet people where they are. Sessions are offered in English and reflect an interactive, compassionate style.

Emily brings four years of counseling experience to her work and highlights support for people coping with substance and behavioral addiction histories. She has also worked with people facing depression, grief and loss, parenting challenges, sleeping difficulties, anger, self-esteem concerns, career transitions, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues.

Her sessions tend to be collaborative and curious. She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on helping people notice their strengths and resilience. Treatment plans are tailored to each person rather than following a fixed script.

Emily uses several evidence-informed approaches when appropriate to a client’s needs. These include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma processing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and mindfulness techniques for learning to live alongside difficult feelings, plus attachment-based and client-centered practices to improve relationships and self-understanding.

To begin work with Emily, follow the Start Therapy button, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability. The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time.

How Emily’s approaches fit into online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions toward a life that matters to the person. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to process traumatic memories so they cause less distress and interfere less with daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, helps identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression and improve coping.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Emily will work with each person to decide which methods match their needs and goals. The plan can change as progress is made and as preferences become clearer, so therapy stays practical and person-centered.

Confirm current session options before booking as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing check-ins during a lunch break or at another convenient moment. It can also allow for shorter or simpler sessions when that fits a person’s schedule or bandwidth. Licensed professionals can adapt EMDR, CBT, and ACT techniques to work well in remote sessions while focusing on real-world skills and pacing that suit each person.