Emily Chavie, LMFT

Emily Chavie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Florida with 19 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage relationship struggles, mood concerns like depression and bipolar symptoms, anxiety, stress, and addictions. Emily aims to bring practical support and steady encouragement to people who are feeling stuck or overwhelmed.

Her approach is down-to-earth and collaborative. She listens first, then helps set clear, achievable steps people can try between sessions. Emily draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for regulating emotion and changing unhelpful thinking. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas to help people clarify values and improve important connections.

Emily works with a broad range of concerns that often overlap, including grief, parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses codependency, guilt and shame, forgiveness, and questions about life purpose. Sessions mix practical skill work with time to talk through painful experiences.

People who prefer a respectful, empathic clinician who offers straightforward tools tend to find her style helpful. She adapts pace and techniques to the person in front of her and focuses on what will make daily life easier. Emily encourages small steps and celebrates progress along the way.

To begin, she asks people to describe what they want to change and what matters most to them. From there she and the person build a plan with clear goals and simple actions to try between meetings.

How Emily’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are intense. It is useful for anxiety, mood struggles, and finding direction after big changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing negative thought patterns and trying different behaviors to change how someone feels. CBT is practical and often helps with depression, anxiety, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better ways to handle conflict. It is helpful when intense emotions or self-harm urges are present.

Finding the right blend of these approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, needs, and personal preference. That process can include trying a few techniques and adjusting as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking because the biography does not list formats. In general, online sessions can make attending therapy easier by fitting meetings into a busy day, reducing travel time, and allowing for shorter check-ins when needed. They can also allow people to work on skills in the context of their everyday routines. A therapist and client will discuss practical details and the best way to structure sessions to meet the client’s needs.