Emilee Sturm is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who works with clients across the lifespan, from elementary-age children and tweens through teens, adults, couples, and parents. Her practice is grounded in a strengths-based, person-centered philosophy. She believes people are not defined by their struggles, and that with the right support, lasting change is possible at any age.

Years of specialized work with children and adolescents have shaped Emilee into a uniquely perceptive therapist for adults as well. Most of the emotional patterns that show up in adult relationships, anxiety, and self-worth trace back to early experiences in our life. Emilee’s immersion in childhood development means she can help adults identify and understand those roots with clarity and compassion. This same insight also makes her an especially effective therapist for parents, who often find that raising children surfaces unresolved experiences from their own childhoods.

For her younger clients, play is one of the primary languages of childhood, and Emilee uses it intentionally. Drawing on directive play therapy alongside narrative, psychodynamic, and CBT-informed approaches, she meets children where they are and creates a space to explore difficult feelings, process big experiences, and grow at their own pace. Her background as a preschool teacher and nanny gives her a rich, developmentally grounded understanding of how kids think, feel, and communicate long before they have the words for it.

Emilee has extensive school-based experience through the School District, providing mental health services to children ages 4–15 addressing anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, trauma, grief, school avoidance, and family stressors such as divorce and custody transitions. She also brings outpatient experience providing individual, couples, and family therapy across a range of presenting concerns.

Among her particular clinical interests is medical trauma and chronic illness within family systems and supporting children, parents, and families navigating hospitalizations, long-term health conditions, and the emotional and relational toll those experiences bring. She also holds a strong commitment to neurodivergent-affirming care.

Emilee sees clients in person or virtually and accepts self-pay, Anthem, Aetna, Blue Shield, Cigna, and Victims of Crime.