You may be here because things feel challenging, overwhelming, or uncertain. You're likely a sensitive human, navigating complex dynamics.
Maybe you're longing for a deeper sense of connection, with yourself, others, or the world around you. You may be in the midst of big transitions, grieving, healing from childhood trauma and attachment wounds, seeking to build strong and secure relationships, or seeking deeper self-knowing and expression of your authentic self.
You don't have to carry it alone. Therapy is a place to slow down and to be with what is, together.
Emily McKinley, MSW, LICSWA (she/they)
I'm a licensed clinical social worker, death doula, and lifelong student of the natural world, offering somatic and ecological therapy rooted in relationship, with yourself, with others, and with the earth.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in the belief that you already hold the wisdom you need. My role is to help you come home to it.
Modalities
While these tools can be helpful, I believe in you and your ability to heal, in your inner strength and your intuitive wisdom.
Lens
Queer, decolonial, anti-racist, and rooted in social and environmental justice. My approach is relational, heart-centered, and rooted in the belief that we are already whole, and that sometimes all we need to do is come home to the ecology of kinship — the interdependence that is our true nature. It's here where we can be deeply witnessed, fully express ourselves, and experience true belonging.
Relationship, in every direction
Kinship Counseling specializes in relationships: the one you have with yourself, the ones you have with others, and the one you have with the natural world.
With Yourself
Building a more attuned awareness of your felt sense, body, mind, heart, and spirit, deepening self-knowing and intuition.
With Others
Navigating attachment, intimacy, family, and community, changing patterns of disconnection into ones of secure, authentic relating.
With the Living World
Cultivating and tending your relationship with the earth, its cycles, and your place within them.
Somatic & nature-based therapy
I help people develop a more attuned awareness of their felt sense, bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits, and our earth, toward a more integrated Self.
Working with the body, not just the story
Somatic Experiencing is a body-based approach to healing stress and trauma. Rather than only talking about what happened, we track sensation, impulse, and nervous system response as they arise, slowly, at a pace your body can integrate. Over time, this helps release stored survival energy, restore a felt sense of safety, and build capacity to be with difficult experience without becoming overwhelmed by it.
Healing in relationship with the living world
Our nervous systems evolved in relationship with the natural world, and that relationship can be a profound resource for regulation, grief, and growth. Sessions may include time outdoors, attention to seasonal and life cycles, and practices that reconnect you to instinct, rhythm, and a sense of belonging beyond the human world alone.
What we might work on together
Individuals, kinships, and communities
Adults (18+)
Teens (13–17)
Children (3–12)
Partners
Families
Kinship Communities & Loved Ones
Small Groups
