Team

Emily Skelton (she/her) is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Board-Certified Art Therapist, trained in EMDR, and a gender affirming therapist with over a decade of experience working with children, teens and adults.  Emily is dedicated in providing inclusive, affirming, and creative counseling. With a focus rooted in the power of expression, neuroscience and the mind-body connection, Emily has trained with the Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy in Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing, and received her training in Eye movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with the Institute of Creative Mindfulness. Emily is a professional member of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) and attends monthly consultations with other Gender Affirming clinicians across the country.  In addition to her clinical and supervisory work at The Artful Healing Center, Emily also runs Art Therapy and EMDR groups with Valley Recovery Center, a residential substance abuse program.  Emily received her Bachelors in Psychology from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, and then went on to complete her Masters of Arts in Psychology from Phillips Graduate Institute with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy.  Emily identifies as pansexual and neurodivergent, and has lived experience with internalized homophobia, coming out to self and others, imposters syndrome, etc.  Emily acknowledges that she is a cisgender white person with cisgender and white privilege, and even though she work with trans clients, she does not assume that she is an expert or truly understands what it is like to be trans, gender diverse, or BIPOC.

To contact Emily, please email her at eskelton@theartfulhealingcenter.com