Emily Kissner, LCPC

Emily Kissner is an LCPC - a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - who blends talk therapy with creative practice. She frames her work through a feminist lens and affirms LGBTQA+ identities. She also brings awareness to polyamory, kink, and sex work when those topics matter to a person's life.

She helps people who are coping with depression, anxiety, and the aftermath of complex trauma. She also supports those managing patterns linked to personality differences, substance use, or challenges with self-esteem and career decisions. Emily focuses on practical, everyday habits and thought patterns that shape how people feel and act.

In sessions she draws on psychotherapy and art therapy tools to help people build coping skills and understand themselves better. That can mean talking through difficult memories, practicing new ways of responding to stress, or using creative exercises to find different perspectives. She aims to make therapy straightforward and usable in daily life.

Emily has twelve years of clinical experience working with diverse concerns including adoption and foster care issues, attachment challenges, caregiver stress, body image, and communication problems. She intentionally addresses areas like abandonment, codependency, and commitment struggles when they come up.

People seeking help for chronic illness, chronic pain, or overlapping mental health concerns will find that her approach considers both practical habits and the impacts of long-term health issues. She is based in Illinois and provides services in English, including to international clients.

How evidence-based and creative methods work online

Emily integrates evidence-based psychotherapy techniques with art therapy approaches. Evidence-based psychotherapy here means using therapeutic methods shown to help with mood, anxiety, and trauma by focusing on how thoughts and habits influence behavior. Art therapy approaches add hands-on creative exercises to help people access feelings and try new ways of expressing themselves.

Both methods aim to change everyday patterns rather than only talking about problems. Psychotherapy elements target thinking and behavior habits that keep anxiety or low mood in place. Creative exercises can help when words feel stuck or when someone needs a different way to process experience.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which combination of talking, skill-building, and creative work fits their needs, goals, and comfort level. That plan can change as the work progresses and new issues emerge.

The biography does not specify session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also let people try creative exercises from their own space while still getting guidance from a licensed professional.