Emily Bradley

With over 20 years of experience as a therapist, I bring a gentle, collaborative, and trauma-informed approach to helping adoptees, creatives, highly sensitive and spiritual people overcome people-pleasing, perfectionism, and over-functioning so they can prioritize their own needs and boundaries. These patterns often develop early in life—through experiences such as adoption, neglect, or relational wounds—or later, as a way of adapting to environments that didn’t fully support who you are. While these strategies may have once helped you survive, they can eventually leave you feeling depleted and disconnected. As an adoptee and a creative person, I also bring lived understanding of the tension between longing for connection and fear of rejection, and the journey of reclaiming authenticity.

Many of my clients feel stuck in patterns of anxiety, depression, or self-doubt—despite years of insight, effort, or traditional therapy. Often they appear highly functional on the outside, yet internally feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from their true self. I collaborate with clients to create a safe, supportive space where you can explore the root causes of these patterns, process unresolved experiences, and begin to reconnect with a greater sense of clarity, self-compassion, and possibility. We’ll craft a tailored approach integrating talk therapy with modalities such as Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed creative arts therapy, attachment-based work, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) nature-based spirituality, and archetypal metaphor practices. Together, these approaches support meaningful, lasting transformation—not just symptom relief, but a deeper reconnection with your sense of self.

During the first few sessions, we’ll build a connection through discussing the background of your concerns, exploring what old narratives may be contributing to your view of yourself and your place in the world. Most people find my presence calm and gentle, and I take an active role in the session–I’m not a blank slate or a passive listener–but I am very supportive of my clients as experts on themselves. Most people learn some practical tools for coping in the first month or so, and experience gradual relief over time. In working with people with a history of trauma, or who are highly sensitive, I am careful to maintain safety, so it’s not necessary to recount details of past experiences. We’ll focus instead on the impact the experience has left on your mind and body, and work towards releasing what no longer serves you, and integrating new perspectives.