Emily Ballew

MA, LMFTA

Clinician

The therapeutic relationship is one of the strongest factors influencing therapy outcomes. Emily believes in crafting a therapeutic alliance built on authenticity, humor, and trust. She views the therapy process as a collaborative system where feedback is always desired. She loves to lean into client strengths and interests.

Emily is passionate about play therapy and using connection-based approaches with children and families to best address concerns such as anxiety, anger, aggression, challenging behaviors, trauma, and family life transitions such as divorce or navigating a blended family. Emily has years of experience working with individuals who have ADHD and ASD, and cares deeply about providing neurodivergent affirming services that align with up-to-date research and the opinions of those with lived experience. Emily also works with individual teens and adults using a systemic lens. Her background is in Marriage and Family Therapy and she is happy to work with many variations of systems to improve communication, functioning, and connection.

Overall, Emily’s therapeutic style utilizes experiential and narrative lenses. She focuses on here-and-now experiences in the therapy space, often incorporating play, art, visualization, music, sandtray, and somatic experiences. She works with clients to identify and re-author the stories they tell about their lives and welcomes clients bringing in aspects of culture, religion, disability, and identity that impact their lives.