Emily Coburn, LMFT
Practical, empathetic support for stress and change
About Emily
Emily Coburn is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in Georgia with 11 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Emily aims to make the first step feel manageable and affirms clients for reaching out. Emily uses straightforward, practical conversation to help people name what’s happening and decide what to try next.
Sessions center on honest talk about feelings and behavior. She helps clients notice small patterns that make life harder and identify concrete changes to try between sessions.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what’s on their mind. That approach supports work on confidence, motivation, and managing strong emotions like anger.
Emily pays attention to what people already do well and builds on those strengths. When life is shifting - a job change, loss, or new responsibilities - she focuses on coping strategies that fit day-to-day realities.
Those strategies are practical and aimed at reducing overwhelm while increasing a sense of control. Emily blends listening with clear suggestions and follow-up.
She encourages small experiments and tracks how changes feel and work over time. Her style is direct, empathetic, and aimed at steady progress.
Approaches that guide online care
Emily draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional regulation. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, then testing small changes to shift reactions and mood; this is useful for stress and anxiety. Another approach centers on skills for recognizing and managing intense emotions, which helps with anger and impulsive responses. Both approaches break problems into manageable steps and focus on what people can try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily routines, and what feels doable. From that conversation she and the client choose methods and adjust them over time so the plan fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and brief reflections. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep progress moving between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English