Health at Every Size® Healthcare Provider Listing
Emily Stewart Macomber, LMHC, NCC
(she/her)
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
ELM Psychotherapy
Medford, Virtual,
Massachusetts,
United States
Contact Me:
Make an Appointment:
Takes Insurance
Sliding Scale Available
Waitlist Available
In-Network Insurance Companies:
- Tufts Commercial Plans
- Harvard Pilgrim
- Aetna
Specialties & Areas of Focus:
- Trauma
- Disordered Eating
- CPTSD
- Infertility
Modalities & Theoretical Lenses:
- Relational
- EMDR
- Attachment Based
- Parts Models
Age Groups Served:
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Older Adults (65+ years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Older Adults (65+ years old)
Additional Populations Served & Allied Groups:
- LGBTQIA+ / TGNC
- ENM / Non Monogamous
Languages Services Offered In:
- English
- English
My Philosophy of Care
I believe that human nature is connection. We know that shame, invalidating environments and trauma in our relationships prevent us from living as our most safe and authentic selves. I strive to provide the kind of psychotherapy experience where you know there is a real person sitting across from you. Most importantly I believe the connection in the therapy relationship is the healing.
As a relational therapist, I work hard to create a safe and contained therapy relationship. That means we can talk about anything that comes up, work through the barriers that keep you stuck, and notice all the parts that make up the authentic you. My objectives are to help you understand your own patterns so you can meet your goals toward satisfaction in your life and relationships. In working with me, we will talk emotional parts, past patterns and the science of the brain and body.
I believe that wellness culture, diet culture, overt and internalized fat-phobia do tremendous harm and have caused trauma in the clients I work with. I work diligently in my own life and in my work with clients to dismantle these ideas. Using a relational approach I help explore how these harmful notions show up in our relationships and experiences in life.
As a relational therapist, I work hard to create a safe and contained therapy relationship. That means we can talk about anything that comes up, work through the barriers that keep you stuck, and notice all the parts that make up the authentic you. My objectives are to help you understand your own patterns so you can meet your goals toward satisfaction in your life and relationships. In working with me, we will talk emotional parts, past patterns and the science of the brain and body.
I believe that wellness culture, diet culture, overt and internalized fat-phobia do tremendous harm and have caused trauma in the clients I work with. I work diligently in my own life and in my work with clients to dismantle these ideas. Using a relational approach I help explore how these harmful notions show up in our relationships and experiences in life.
About Me & My Practice
I treat a wide range of clients from a variety of backgrounds. At heart I am a trauma specialist, and I have a particular focus in attachment trauma, narcissistic abuse, estrangement, toxic family stress, codependency, disordered eating, and complex ptsd. I practice from a relational framework, which is able to uniquely address the nature of these harms and the deeply felt needs of many clients.
I first came to the HAES® model when working in community health care when I attended a training. I had already begun my own personal journey to dismantle internalized fatphobia and was just beginning to explore just how far reaching fat bias and healthism was. Having a background in treating eating disorders, I was already interested in how body-shaming experiences showed up in the trauma of the clients was treating. It was apparent to me that medical systems and other systems of care were often doing harm to clients in the name of "health." Since that time, I have learned as much as I could and have been incorporating that learning into the work I do. I am particularly thankful to the work of Christy Harrison, Sonya Renee Taylor, Vinny Welsby, Virginia Sole-Smith and Aubrey Gordon.
I continuously look to my community to make sure I have referral sources and partnerships with HAES aligned providers, nutritionists, and groups. This has been the most important part of additional work with my clients, having safe resources for them to receive care with respect.
I first came to the HAES® model when working in community health care when I attended a training. I had already begun my own personal journey to dismantle internalized fatphobia and was just beginning to explore just how far reaching fat bias and healthism was. Having a background in treating eating disorders, I was already interested in how body-shaming experiences showed up in the trauma of the clients was treating. It was apparent to me that medical systems and other systems of care were often doing harm to clients in the name of "health." Since that time, I have learned as much as I could and have been incorporating that learning into the work I do. I am particularly thankful to the work of Christy Harrison, Sonya Renee Taylor, Vinny Welsby, Virginia Sole-Smith and Aubrey Gordon.
I continuously look to my community to make sure I have referral sources and partnerships with HAES aligned providers, nutritionists, and groups. This has been the most important part of additional work with my clients, having safe resources for them to receive care with respect.
Accessibility Considerations
My office has limited mobility and wheelchair accessibility due to small corridors and unreliable elevator service.
My office furniture is varied purposefully to provide seating with high weight limits, with a variety of large and small seating, high and low seating.