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Emily Harrell (she/they)

Emily is currently a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Master of Social Work program. She received her Bachelor's in Experimental Psychology and Religious Studies from the University of South Carolina. Emily is passionate about supporting adolescents and adults as they explore the formation of a personal identity, navigate difficult life events, and learn to accept their authentic selves. 

 

Emily uses approaches informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Parts Work. Emily has experience working in school-based mental health support with middle and high school students and in residential eating disorder treatment with adults. 

 

“To be cringe is to be free.” -Ask me about this quote.

 

 

Has Training in the Following Areas

  • Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist Intensive Training

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Approach to Living with Trauma

  • Polyvagal Theory-Informed Trauma Treatment

 

Currently Working On: 

  • Certified ADHD Professional Intensive Training Course: Evidence-Based Strategies for Managing ADHD Across the Lifespan

  • Adults with High-Functioning Autism and Comorbid Mental Disorders: Motivational Interviewing Tools and Techniques 

  • Collaborative Healing with Internal Family Systems with Tasha Hunter

  • Healing Trauma Through Internal Family Systems with Tasha Hunter

  • Internal Family Systems: Experiential Practices for Therapists 

  • All Parts Are Welcome: Using  The Internal Family Systems Model With Individuals and Partners with Trauma History

  • EMDR from Start to Finish: The Complete Foundational Training for Treating PTSD and Complex Trauma

 

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What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade
By Brad Aaron Modlin

Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen
to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas,
 
how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. She took
questions on how not to feel lost in the dark
 
After lunch she distributed worksheets
that covered ways to remember your grandfather’s
 
voice. Then the class discussed falling asleep
without feeling you had forgotten to do something else—
 
something important—and how to believe
the house you wake in is your home. This prompted
 
Mrs. Nelson to draw a chalkboard diagram detailing
how to chant the Psalms during cigarette breaks,
 
and how not to squirm for sound when your own thoughts
are all you hear; also, that you have enough.
 
The English lesson was that I am
is a complete sentence.
 
And just before the afternoon bell, she made the math equation
look easy. The one that proves that hundreds of questions,
 
and feeling cold, and all those nights spent looking
for whatever it was you lost, and one person
 
add up to something.

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