Emma Henderschedt, LCSW

Emma Henderschedt (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut with three years of clinical experience and advanced training in child and family mental health. She holds an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and brings specialized expertise in working with anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, stress, self-esteem, and a range of mood and interpersonal difficulties. She has experience treating adults, teenagers, and children and addresses issues across the lifespan including adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and life transitions.

Emma completed a post-graduate fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center, where she provided therapy for diverse mental health needs and trained in several evidence-based approaches. Her training includes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) including the adolescent adaptation, and Circle of Security. In her clinical practice she draws from Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy to tailor treatment to each client’s needs.

She works with clients on concerns such as family conflict, parenting and blended family issues, panic and mood disorders, anger, career stress, and feelings of isolation or low life purpose. Emma also supports work around identity and LGBT issues, body image, and control or abandonment-related difficulties. Emma provides services in English. She is not currently accepting clients, and does not work with international clients.