Emma Burton, LMHCA, LPCA
Emma Burton, LMHCA, LPCA
Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate (WA), Licensed Professional Counselor Associate (OR)
About Emma as a Counselor
Emma honors the uniqueness of each person and strives to bring a holistic, kind, and hopeful approach to therapy. Her gentle, welcoming demeanor helps create a safe and supportive space where clients can open up at their own pace. Emma believes that it is a privilege to walk alongside people and highly values the therapeutic relationship in her work with clients.
She is passionate about helping individuals heal from the past while also discovering purpose, meaning, and empowerment in their lives. Emma partners with individuals, couples, children, teens, and families navigating a wide range of emotional and life challenges. Her experience includes work with trauma and PTSD, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, parenting, identity-related concerns, and more.
Emma’s approach is trauma-informed, eclectic, and personalized—guided by each client’s personal experiences, strengths, and needs. She takes an integrative perspective that may include exploring personal values, understanding different parts of the self, increasing body awareness, and reflecting on how past experiences and relationships shape the present. Depending on the client, sessions may also incorporate education about how the brain and body respond to stress, along with mindfulness, creative expression, or play-based techniques.
Training and Background
Emma earned her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a Child and Youth Specialization from Western Seminary in 2024. She also holds a B.S. in Environmental Studies with a minor in Psychology from the University of Oregon.
She brings years of experience working with children, adolescents, young adults, and families in residential psychiatric care, college support programs, and homeless youth services. She also has clinical experience providing therapy across the lifespan in both community mental health and private practice settings. Emma is also experienced in facilitating both psychoeducational and process-oriented therapy groups.
Emma works with individuals, couples, and families, tailoring her approach to meet the unique needs of each client. Her relational, trauma-informed style integrates and draws on evidence-based modalities and training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and somatic practices
With couples, Emma incorporates Emotionally Focused Therapy and Gottman-informed tools to foster emotional connection and strengthen communication. In her work with children, she integrates play therapy, sand tray work, attachment-based approaches, and Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy (CBPT).
$180 – 53 minute Couples Counseling
$180 – 53 minute Family Counseling
$200 – 53 minute Diagnostic Assessment
*Limited Reduced Rate Scholarships are available upon request
Tuesdays 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Wednesdays 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Thursdays 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
All appointments must be scheduled in advance
Emma is able to offer supervisory billing under her direct supervisor in order to offer in-network benefits and rates for clients with Kaiser Permanente NW Commercial Insurance and PacificSource Commercial Insurance.
Emma is an out-of-network provider and is able to provide superbills (“therapy receipts”) to any client who wishes to use his/her out-of-network benefits with all other commercial insurance carriers.
When exploring your out-of-network benefits, ask your insurance about the deductible, reimbursement, and process for submitting superbills.
Counselors and providers are better able to protect your personal and health information with the greatest degree of privacy when you pay privately for your services without using insurance. Your records remain free from any audit or compliance check. You have the most flexibility and control in deciding the session frequency, longevity, content, and interventions. Mental health diagnoses are not provided to your insurance.
Counseling Specialties
- Trauma
- PTSD and Complex Trauma
- Grief and Loss
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Anger Management
- Spirituality and Ministry Issues
- Relationship Issues
- Identity and Self-Esteem Issues
- Life Transitions
- Parenting
- Family
Counseling Services
- Individual Counseling
- Children (4+ years)
- Teens (13-18 years)
- Family Counseling
- Couples Counseling
- Parents
- Adults
- Seniors
Additional Information
Emma is a wife and mom to two young kids. She enjoys many different outdoor activities, especially those in the mountains and at the coast. She also enjoys reading, art journaling and spending time with valued friends and family. Although Emma does not impose her own beliefs onto her clients, she is able to provide Christian faith integration for any client that desires this as part of their work together.