Emily Benedict (she/her)

LPC, LMHC
Accepting Clients

People would generally describe me as introspective, intuitive, creative, and remarkably unembarrassed

Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Bellingham, WA

Services

About My Clients

I am someone you'd see if you are craving deeper understanding. I see adults who feel like a stranger within their own body, mind, and spirit. This may be due to loss of faith/deconversion, grief, identity work, existential questions, relational issues, chronic self neglect, disordered eating, trauma. Those who are hungering to be more attuned and embodied in their emotions, values, sense of self but somewhere got lost along the way.

My Background and Approach

My approach is collaborative, relational, trauma informed, and human. I offer long term psychotherapy as well as intensives and mental health therapy “check ups.” if you are someone who wants to take a preventative or seasonal check in approach to your mental health.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I am HAES aligned (Health at Every Size) and offer 11 years of working with eating disorders and an anti-diet, weight inclusive, fat liberational, sex positive approach to clients working to confront their relationship with food and/or negative body image. I draw on my own history/faith departure from Christianity and seminary education for spiritual matters and supporting folks through abuse, questioning, losing, reconstructing, or mourning their beliefs. As someone who deals with chronic pain, I draw on my own relationship with my body, her strength, limitation, and how necessary body attunement is. As a queer person, I strive to promote inclusion among the LGBTQIA+ community. I strive to promote an atmosphere of respect, curiosity and humility; to offer a space that is anti-oppressive, anti-racist and cognizant of political, economic, and socio-cultural determinants of health that includes injustices inherent in the systems we operate.

Insurance Plans Accepted
  • PacificSource
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Atheism
  • Baha'i
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
  • Islam
  • Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Judaism
  • The Satanic Temple
  • Wicca/Paganism
  • Interfaith
  • Multifaith

At A Glance

  • Experience: 13 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $175/session

Info

Email Emily
1901 Cornwall Ave
#1145
Bellingham, WA 98225

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