Jennifer Emerson, LMFT

Jennifer Emerson is a Vermont LMFT with 23 years of clinical experience. She works with adults, couples, and teens on relationship concerns, family strain, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, and other life stresses.

She uses clear, practical methods in sessions. Jennifer draws on Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to look at how connections and early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to help people notice thoughts and behaviors and practice new ways of relating.

Jennifer has a Master of Science in Counseling from California State University, East Bay, and holds a Vermont LMFT credential. Much of her work over the past two decades has involved early parent-child relationships and supporting perinatal women and families with young children. Her lived experience as a working parent of a neurodivergent child also informs her approach.

Sessions generally focus on concrete skills and clearer communication. She helps people identify patterns that get in the way of intimacy, parenting, or daily functioning and then practices alternatives together. Expect straightforward guidance, reflective listening, and practical exercises you can try between sessions.

Clients who are concerned about anxiety, social fears, attachment issues, addiction, grief, sleep, or coping with major life changes may find this approach useful. Jennifer also addresses specialized topics such as abandonment, foster care and adoption matters, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and codependency.

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