About me

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the states of Maryland, Virginia, and Arizona. I graduated from Louisiana State University in Shreveport with my Masters in Counseling Psychology. For the past 15 years, I have been working with adults, adolescents, children and families from various backgrounds. I have worked with clients with a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, anger management, relationship issues, ADHD, and trauma.

My counseling style is a combination of Person-Centered, Cognitive-Behavioral, and Solution-Focused. I think it is very important to focus on building a strong therapeutic relationship to help the counseling process be most effective. I believe in meeting the client where they are mentally and emotionally in order to help them work toward what they would like to achieve in counseling. I always encourage and support the client with creating individualized therapeutic goals to help motivate and empower the client to make positive changes.

I look forward to working with you and helping you overcome the challenges you are experiencing.

Specialties

  • Stress, Anxiety
  • Anger management
  • Self esteem, Motivation
  • Depression
  • ADHD
Also experienced in:
LGBT , Relationship issues , Family conflicts , Trauma and abuse , Grief , Parenting issues , Career difficulties , Coping with life changes , Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) , Young Adult Issues

Clinical approaches:
Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy

Years of Experience: 15

Services offered


  • Messaging

  • Live Chat

  • Phone

  • Video

Licensing

AZ LPC LPC-22598

MD LCPC LC4091

VA LPC 0701011396

Reviews

These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Emily Tarantola. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with Teen Counseling might be different.

Written on Jan 03, 2024 after therapy with Emily for 1 month on issues concerning stress, anxiety, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, and parenting issues

Emily is very knowledgeable and sensitive. She is easy to talk to and very helpful. I highly recommend her.

Written on Dec 18, 2023 after therapy with Emily for 2 weeks on issues concerning anger management

Emily had been great in listening and understanding my issues and helping to make an actionable, pragmatic plan to help get my anger issues under control. I really appreciate her.

Written on Jul 31, 2020 after therapy with Emily for 11 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, self esteem, and coping with life changes

Emily is really great! She is very helpful and a really great listener. I feel like she really understands me and genuinely cares about me!

Written on Mar 21, 2020 after therapy with Emily for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, and stress, anxiety

Emily is very kind and understanding. She makes me feel like I'm being listened to when no one else will listen, and I feel very comfortable talking about all my problems with her.

Written on Jan 16, 2020 after therapy with Emily for 2 months

Great listener. Working with Emily has helped my daughter. I feel she has her best interest at heart and has done a great job.

Written on Nov 02, 2019 after therapy with Emily for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, and self esteem

Emily is a very good listener and really does care about you.

Written on Jul 07, 2019 after therapy with Emily for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and self esteem

Emily is great about reaching out

Written on Jun 25, 2019 after therapy with Emily for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and coping with life changes

I like the way she really works on trying to help me solve my problems while also listening to everything I have to say :)

Written on May 27, 2019 after therapy with Emily for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, lgbt, and trauma and abuse

She’s patient and thoughtful and always follows up!

Written on May 10, 2019 after therapy with Emily for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, parenting issues, self esteem, and coping with life changes

So far, Emily has been very helpful. She listens carefully to my concerns and makes me feel heard.

Written on Apr 27, 2019 after therapy with Emily for 2 weeks on issues concerning relationship issues

Emily is an excellent counselor. I am so happy that I got so lucky as to find her. She’s really been helping me get through a tough time and always checks in with me weekly, even after our phone calls, to see how I’m doing. She even sent me resources that I can use to strengthen my process of healing. She is a wonderful counselor and person, and anyone would be lucky to have her as a counselor!

Work with me!