As a system’s trained therapist, Emily Trapp specializes in helping individuals understand how their relationships impact their journey to wellness. Emily works well with people who are exploring the dynamics of their personal and professional relationships, including friends, intimate partners, and family. She is passionate about helping her clients explore and understand the interpersonal connections in their lives and particularly for clients and their families struggling with substance use. Together, they will work to identify patterns so her client’s can develop a greater understanding of the dynamics that already exist in their relationships with others.

Emily Trapp graduated with a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from East Carolina University and is now a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Clinical Addictions Specialist. She passionately believes in the importance of understanding your struggles and life experiences beyond what is intrinsic, so she can support her client’s exploration of being part of a larger system as well. Her work utilizes several evidence-based modalities, such as, but not limited to solutions-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, and systems-based modalities like Bowen Family Systems. Emily’s therapeutic style is compassionate, collaborative, relational, and strengths-based— she will meet you wherever you are.

Emily’s priority is to help her clients move away from the idea of being someone who needs to “fixed” and instead, advocate and collaborate with them to build or redefine their ideal vision of the future and champion their path to get there. Emily’s purpose is all about creating a space where people can just be who they are, wherever they’re at and together, explore your curiosities, grow your confidence, foster the kind of relationships that you want and need, and most notably, strengthen the most  important relationship of all; the one with yourself. It’s only when we better understand ourselves, that we can be more attuned to those we love and wish to have in our circle.