Emily Aumann

Emily’s approach to therapy rests on the understanding that mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health are not separate, and individual and collective wellbeing are deeply intertwined. Personal experience unraveling chronic pain combined with an awe of the human body and brain stokes her fire to share this work with others. She is interested in what possibilities arise when we center the body in our healing, particularly related to chronic pain/symptoms and trauma. Emily recognizes social, cultural, economic, and political contexts as layers of the complex being that is you.

Emily views therapeutic relationships as collaborative, resisting narratives of “unwell client and expert healer.” Her goal is for you to feel ownership within the therapeutic relationship shaping your goals for change in your life. She strives to listen deeply and weave pragmatic tools, information, and reflection. Together she believes we can tend a space of care and curiosity to integrate difficult experiences. Emily hopes to support the people she works with toward greater connection, ease, and compassion. She leans on social work’s person-in-environment perspective and what she knows about human nervous systems to practice healing as a relational art.

Emily is in her final year of graduate studies in PSU’s Social Work program. Before starting graduate school, she worked with plants and people in numerous roles. Her undergraduate degree is in Sociology-Environmental Studies. As an intern with Connections First, Emily practices under the clinical supervision of Daphna Peterson, LCSW, daphna@connectionsfirst.org. She adheres to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics.​