Emalie Coplan (she/they)

My Background and Approach

In our therapeutic relationship, we will collaboratively create a safe space for exploration, delving into your past and navigating the path between where you currently stand and where you aspire to be. I tailor interventions for each client, drawing on IFS and experiential techniques like EMDR, Brainspotting, and psychedelics. My approach is relational, client-led, collaborative, and social justice-oriented. As a white therapist, I am deeply committed to actively learning from those who hold marginalized identities, applying an intersectional lens, and practicing from a place of cultural humility and anti-racism. Additionally, this means I am sex, kink, and fat-positive, and aim to provide neurodivergent and polyamory/non-monogamy affirming care. Our lives are political, and our mental health and well-being is always tied to the systems and structures we live within. As a queer person, I am especially committed to working with queer and trans communities.

Why I Became a Therapist

As someone who overcame a difficult childhood, I’m not too different from you. I come from my own traumas throughout childhood and into adult life. I experienced and survived a dysfunctional childhood, I’m a 10/10 on the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES). Despite seeming to “have it together”, I felt detached from my emotions and my sense of self. I had numerous relationships but lacked true intimacy, not realizing this was a common experience for trauma survivors—feeling a painful internal split and deep self-estrangement. When I began my own healing, it became a transformative process for me. It helped me integrate my childhood trauma and reclaim lost parts of myself. With the right support, I stopped avoiding my feelings and started feeling a sense of belonging, finding the courage and safety to reconnect with myself. Therapy profoundly transformed my life and mended my heart. Inspired by my own journey, I am dedicated to offering others the same support and encouragement.