Emily Aumann
Whatever led you to where you are, Emily honors your path and believes you can find your way home with the care and support that you need. She is committed to cultivating collaborative therapeutic relationships rooted in honesty and shared humanity. Her goal is to meet you where you are and walk with you towards the change you want in your life. She strives to listen deeply and weave pragmatic tools, information, and reflection. Together she believes we can tend a space of care and curiosity to integrate difficult experiences. She is particularly attuned to working with experiences of chronic pain/symptoms, trauma, loss and grief, high sensitivity, and LGBTQ+ identities.
Emily’s approach to therapy is somatic, systemic, and relational. She understands that mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health are not separate, and individual and collective wellbeing are deeply intertwined. Personal experience unraveling chronic pain combined with an awe of the human body and brain stokes her fire to share this work with others. She is interested in what possibilities arise when we center the body in our healing. Emily recognizes social, cultural, economic, and political contexts as layers of the complex being that is you. Emily’s trauma-aware theoretical lens is influenced by polyvagal theory, somatic parts work, relational, attachment, and pain recovery models. She combines a liberation health framework with what she knows about human nervous systems to practice healing as a relational art.
Emily is in her final year of graduate studies in PSU’s Social Work program. Before starting graduate school, she worked with plants and people in numerous roles. Alongside this work, she enjoys tending the garden, creating in the kitchen, making/listening to music, befriending animals, and adventuring outside. She finds deep healing in connection with land and seasonal cycles. As an intern with Connections First, Emily practices under the clinical supervision of Daphna Peterson, LCSW, daphna@connectionsfirst.org. She adheres to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics.