Emily Benton is a licensed professional counselor who offers straightforward, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, and life transitions.
01About Emily
Emily Benton is a licensed professional counselor who offers straightforward, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, and life transitions. She works with individuals to untangle immediate problems and build clearer next steps. Sessions are conversational and focused on what the client needs right now.
Emily blends client-centered care with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused approaches. That means she listens first, then helps people test different ways of thinking and behaving to reduce distress.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness and solution-focused techniques when those fit a person's goals. Her work includes grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, and career or purpose questions. She also supports clients dealing with bipolar or depressive symptoms, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Emily has additional experience around adoption and foster care, substance use, and end-of-life matters. Emily has five years of clinical experience and practices in Texas. She holds the LPC credential, which is listed as TX LPC.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People who choose Emily often want practical skills alongside a steady, listening presence. She helps people set manageable goals, practice new skills between sessions, and track small changes over time.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client's timing.
02Credentials
- LPC (Texas)
- License 80439 · expires July 2027
- NPI
- 1770235160 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Emily lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Methods Emily names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Emily names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Emily uses client-centered therapy to make room for each person's priorities. This approach emphasizes listening and building a plan that fits the client's goals, which helps when someone needs a steady, empathic space to talk through problems.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday challenges because it gives clear skills to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emily will collaborate with the client to decide which methods suit their needs and preferences. Together they set goals, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support frequent, brief contact and can help keep progress moving between scheduled sessions.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Emily commonly help with?
She helps people with trauma and abuse, anxiety, stress, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, and life transitions among other topics.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is client-centered and collaborative, using cognitive behavioral and trauma-focused tools plus mindfulness and solution-focused techniques as needed.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years of experience working with a range of concerns including adoption-related issues, substance use, and end-of-life transitions.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is licensed as an LPC in Texas, listed as TX LPC, and practices with clients located in that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How does cost and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; to start, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
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