Emily Horowitz, MA, LPC, PMH-C
President and Director
She, Her, Hers
Psychotherapy or Supervision Sessions for Individuals: $230. Couples: $250.
Emily has offered support, consultation, and healing to individuals and groups for more than 20 years in various capacities. After working for years in nonprofit management and program development in the US and abroad, Emily received her Master's in Counseling Psychology from Naropa University. Through that graduate training, she learned the art of fusing western psychology with mindfulness practices and applied these principles to the practice of supporting and empowering families.
Emily provides psychotherapy to people struggling with parenthood transitions, including those impacted by perinatal mood and anxiety issues, infertility struggles, loss, attachment challenges and disruptions, and relationship struggles. Emily’s clinical expertise includes couples counseling, parent-infant psychotherapy, perinatal mental health, child-parent psychotherapy, trauma treatment, group therapy, and family systems work including play therapy. Her background is eclectic and draws upon mindfulness-based, psychodynamic, humanistic, and attachment-driven approaches. She is committed to offering insight, nurturing, and support to parents so that they can in turn offer the best of themselves to their children and their relationships.
Emily is trained in Levels I and II of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Couples Counseling, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy, Parent-Child Interactional Assessments and the use of Emotional Availability Scales. Her work has spanned a variety of settings including community and home-based mental health programs, private practice, medical facilities, and domestic violence service agencies. She has experience collaborating with a wide spectrum of professional disciplines. In addition to her therapeutic work, Emily founded and directed a NYS nonprofit called Parenting Village and served as the NYS Co-Coordinator for Postpartum Support International.
Emily is also a skilled clinical supervisor and trainer, and is fiercely dedicated to supporting psychotherapists in developing their unique style and competencies while ensuring that provide the highest standards of care possible to families. She offers supervision, mentorship, and guidance to therapists looking to hone their craft as specialists in the field, pulling from constructivist and reflective supervision orientations.
As Co-Owner and Center Director, Emily is responsible for the oversight and management of PFWC’s operations, and develops new programming and community partnerships in line with the organizations’s mission-driven work.
Emily’s commitment to self care includes: Dancing, exercise, hiking or walking in nature, meditation, sinking into good music, cooking and eating with friends, and telling jokes and playing games around the dinner table with her partner and their children.
Emily’s services include individuals/couples psychotherapy, consulting, infant mental health, parent coaching/support, clinical supervision, and professional consultation for mental health clinicians.
Licensure
Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies LPC # 13141
Education
M.A. Counseling Psychology, Naropa University, Boulder, CO
B.A. History/Political Science, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY
Professional Memberships/ Affiliations
American Counseling Association
Postpartum Support International
The Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health