About Emily
Emily Foister offers support for stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly about challenges and helps people find steady, usable ways to cope. Emily brings two decades of experience as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Indiana to her work.
She writes in clear, direct language and focuses on practical steps people can take day to day. Emily sees sudden life changes and ongoing struggles as problems people can learn to manage.
Background and approach
She helps people identify what feels stuck and what small moves might shift things. Sessions aim to build skills for coping with strong emotions and reducing behaviors that get in the way of recovery. The focus is on concrete strategies and small, realistic goals.
Her background includes 20 years of clinical experience and practice in Indiana as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor. That experience has exposed her to addiction issues, trauma responses, and the fallout of crisis and loss. She uses that experience to offer steady guidance and straightforward tools rather than jargon.
Emily pays attention to attachment struggles, blended family dynamics, body image, and communication problems. She also works with concerns such as control issues, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and isolation. The aim is to strengthen a person’s sense of self and their ability to trust their own choices.
Sessions are geared toward clear, manageable change. Emily helps people set achievable steps and practice new ways of coping between sessions. She encourages honesty about what helps and what doesn’t, and adjusts plans based on each person’s needs and pace.
Practical approaches for online healing
Two evidence-based techniques Emily commonly uses are skills-based coping work and trauma-informed care. Skills-based coping work focuses on teaching concrete tools for managing anxiety, cravings, or mood shifts so people can handle hard moments. Trauma-informed care looks at how past harm affects present behavior and aims to reduce reactivity while building emotional safety and pacing each step.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Emily will work with each person to figure out which techniques fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time, checking in about what helps and what should change so treatment stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and text formats support brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and timely coping reminders between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, and other life demands while keeping progress steady.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English