Emma Cott , LCMFT

Emma Cott is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist (LCMFT) practicing in Kansas who has been licensed and working since 2012. She began her career in community mental health, spending the first six years focused on crisis intervention and supporting clients across the lifespan who were struggling to keep themselves safe. In 2017 she transitioned to private practice, where she now provides therapy to adolescents, adults, couples, and families.

Her clinical work addresses a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, suicidal thinking, relationship and intimacy difficulties, identity and sexuality issues, work and career challenges, social problems, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting and blended family dynamics, and challenges related to self-esteem, anger, and caregiver stress. She also works with issues such as attachment and abandonment, BDSM and kink matters, codependency, commitment struggles, dissociation, and mood disorders.

Emma describes her style as warm and supportive while willing to push clients when she judges they are ready for growth. She practices an eclectic, trauma-informed approach, drawing on Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Existential Therapy, EMDR, narrative and interpersonal methods, family systems theory, and contextual interventions. Her guiding belief is that acceptance of where one is offers the first step toward change - a perspective she often frames with the words of Carl Rogers about self-acceptance leading to change. She welcomes the decision to begin therapy as a meaningful first step toward personal work and growth.