Emily Keehn
Calm, practical therapy for meaningful change
LCSW California
- Experience
- 4 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Emily
Emily Keehn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who brings a trauma-informed and DBT-informed perspective to her practice. She emphasizes supporting the whole person through healing and practical growth, drawing on four years of clinical experience in California.
Background and approach
Her work addresses a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, compassion fatigue, addictions, relationship and family issues, and bipolar disorder, along with related challenges such as caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, and life transitions.
Her style is direct, calm, and collaborative, with a focus on forming strong therapeutic relationships that enable real-world change. Clients can expect an approach that balances compassion with practical tools - using methods like cognitive behavioral interventions, acceptance and commitment strategies, mindfulness, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to build clarity and resilience.
Sessions aim to help people feel understood while developing skills to manage emotions, communication, and problem-solving. Emily works with adult clients and has experience with veterans and veteran families as well as individuals navigating physical disability or shifts in religious belief.
She practices in California and conducts therapy in English.
Approach-focused Online Therapy and Practical Skills
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps clients identify unhelpful thought patterns and experiment with new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It is often used to address anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps and practicing new skills. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while clarifying personal values and taking committed action toward those values; it can be useful for coping with chronic stress, grief, and life transitions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, supporting people who struggle with intense emotions or relationship conflicts.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Emily works with clients to explore which methods resonate with their goals and preferences, adjusting strategies over time to meet changing needs and to build practical skills that fit each person’s life. Clients are invited to be active partners in creating goals and choosing techniques that feel most helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit care into busy schedules or manage mobility constraints. These formats allow consistent access to licensed professionals and make it possible to continue skill-building and therapy from wherever clients are located within California.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
4+ years
Licensed
California
Languages
English