Emma Jane Watson LICSW

I have had the good fortune to work with varied groups and individuals in eight states, and to travel and experience humanity in every walk of life. I have had an exciting, fulfilling life, and struggled with the complexities of critical illness, medical trauma and near death. I understand the immense value of maintaining human connections, and embracing individual growth and change to be the best in every chosen role.

I am very honest and forthright. I have deep empathy and compassion and see therapy as holding a safe space in which to work with people who are suffering deeply. I use mindfulness in my own life to practice equanimity and work with my clients to learn how it may have a place in their lives also. I am grateful to be allowed into my clients' lives and honor their commitment to personal healing.

Therapy is much more doing than talking. Personal change is the most difficult work one can do, and it is the most satisfying. However, it requires lots of commitment, learning, patience, self-compassion, hard work and lots of practice to affect change. I understand this deeply and will work as hard as my clients and not any harder. It is their choice to change. I am just the facilitator.

• Washington, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, LW60921300

I have worked throughout my life to help others by providing education, counseling, therapy, facing their fears, finding resources, or advocating on their behalf. Before pursuing a second master's degree in social work, I taught at Arizona State University for 15 years in the College of Business and the College of Liberal Arts. Upon graduation with an MSW, I was accepted in a residency program to become certified in dialectical behavioral therapy with training in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). Community mental health work honed my skills in treating mental illness, personality disorders, anxiety, and depression. As a mental health therapist for a county jail, I found the environment in which to deepened my compassion, empathy, and understanding of severe, complex trauma and PTSD. I continued my training in personality disorder treatment, complex trauma, and court mitigation during my time working in the jail. I have worked diligently over the past year to become a Certified Psychedelic-Assisted Therapist graduating from the Integrative Psychiatry Institute last December, 2023. I believe in psychedelic medicine and see the immense potential for its future place in mental health therapy.