Emma is passionate about fostering a space in which her clients feel safe to express their identities, hopes, and insecurities without judgment. Her approach is grounded in the belief that strong client-therapist relationships are essential for inspiring growth and insight. Emma is particularly interested in helping clients explore how early attachment experiences shape current relational patterns, often drawing on the therapeutic alliance to facilitate healing. Through this collaborative process, she strives to empower her clients as agents of change in their lives. Emma’s specialties include anxiety, relationship issues, trauma, and attachment-based challenges. As a transracial adoptee with White parents, Emma recognizes the impacts of systems and prioritizes providing culturally sensitive therapy with respect to identities such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and religion. Her clinical orientation integrates psychodynamic, relational-cultural, cognitive-behavioral, and trauma-focused approaches. Emma holds a Master of Social Work degree with a specialization in behavioral health from Boston University. Her diverse experience includes providing therapy to children and adults from various cultural backgrounds and conducting clinical research on self-harm at Harvard University. She has also mentored immigrant high school students through Enroot and volunteered in the music therapy program at Mass General Hospital. Her most recent clinical training includes earning certificates in two trauma-focused therapies, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR), and providing therapy to adults struggling with challenges such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, relationship issues, and suicidal ideation.