Emily (Em) Harsch

Mental Health Therapist

Em Harsch

Modalities

Individuals

Specialties

  • Anxiety
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • LGBTQ+ Issues
  • Life Transitions
  • Neurodivergence
  • Open Relationship, Non-Monogamy
  • Peer Relationships
  • Relationship Issues
  • School Issues
  • Self Esteem
  • Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Transgender
  • Trauma and PTSD
  • Women’s Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • LGBTQ+ Issues
  • Life Transitions
  • Neurodivergence
  • Open Relationship, Non-Monogamy
  • Peer Relationships
  • Relationship Issues
  • School Issues
  • Self Esteem
  • Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Transgender
  • Trauma and PTSD
  • Women’s Issues

Treatments

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy
  • Existential Therapy
  • Gender Affirming Approaches
  • Humanistic Approaches
  • Humanistic Approaches
  • Mindfulness-Based Intervention
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian Therapy)
  • Somatic Approaches
  • Strength-Based Approaches
  • Trauma Focused Approaches
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy
  • Existential Therapy
  • Gender Affirming Approaches
  • Humanistic Approaches
  • Humanistic Approaches
  • Mindfulness-Based Intervention
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian Therapy)
  • Somatic Approaches
  • Strength-Based Approaches
  • Trauma Focused Approaches

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Locations

Telehealth

Insurance Accepted

  • Iowa Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • HAWKI
  • Amerigroup / Wellpoint
  • Iowa Total Care
  • Molina
  • United Healthcare
  • UMR
  • BCBS
  • Cigna
  • Optum VA
  • Health Partners
  • Medica
  • Midland’s Choice
  • Crime Victims Compensation Funding of Iowa
  • Private Pay
  • County Social Services Funding (Grundy, Black Hawk, Allamakee, Butler, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Tama, Winneshiek counties)
  • SED Funding (Linn County residents only)
  • MHDD Funding (Linn County residents only)

Clients

  • Preteens / Tweens (11 to 13)
  • Adolescents / Teenagers (14 to 19)
  • Adults
  • Elders (65+)

Em (she/they) is a Licensed Master Social Work (LMSW) providing telehealth services across the state of Iowa. Em has an MSW from the University of Denver with a concentration in mental health. Em previously worked for several years in LGBTQ+ student services, has experience counseling adolescents in an alternative high school in Denver (Colorado), and has also provided gender-affirming care for youth at the Transgender Center of the Rockies. Em seeks to provide inclusive, collaborative, person-centered care for all of her clients. She is passionate about empowerment and strengths-based mental health care, and also has experience with cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, and mindfulness-based approaches. Outside of work, Em enjoys spending time with her partner and their three dogs, caring for a jungle of houseplants, eating Thai food, and getting outdoors.

 

Em is open to working with clients from all communities we serve in alignment with Heart and Solutions’ Commitment to Inclusion.
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Em is especially passionate about working with the following communities and issues: LGBTQ+ identities, gender-affirming care, parents/loved ones of trans people, neurodivergence, people, autistic people, ADHDers, racial justice, racial trauma, religious trauma, Christian, secular/non-religious, immigrants, immuno-disorders, sex workers, single parents, veterans