Meet Emily Brown
Clinical Mental Health Therapist & Yoga Teacher
Emily sees appointments in our Fort Collins office.
Emily sees herself as a student of the human condition. Her career has spanned the fields of massage therapy, Yoga, theater arts, and now counseling. What began as an interest in Drama therapy as an undergraduate has led to a lifetime of curiosity about stress, pain, trauma, and navigating the nervous system. She has had the privilege to work with clients in a wide range of communities, with a wide range of abilities and challenges and she looks forward to continuing this inclusive, holistic practice as a mental health counselor. She is particularly drawn to the intersections of eating disorders, neurodivergence, and LGBTQIA+ community.
She graduated from Naropa University and began her clinical practice of Social Justice and Somatic Body Psychotherapy. Her approach to mental health blends humanistic, experiential, and body-based practices to help clients meet themselves with compassion and curiosity. She enjoys integrating Yoga, mindfulness, parts work, and touch into her approach as a counselor. She plans to continue her studies to include neurofeedback in the future.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Cultural resume
I identify as a fat, able-bodied, middle-aged, white, cisgender woman; I am also queer; my relationship to the word queer is best described by bell hooks, “Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
I was born into a lineage of privilege in an upper-middle-class, white suburban household, educated within a well-funded school system with robust extracurricular activities where the arts were encouraged. I was assessed as Gifted in grade 3, which shaped a path of educational opportunities.
My ancestry can be traced back to original settler colonialists in Virginia and West Virginia. In service of reparations for this I am committed to ongoing personal, professional, and societal decolonization.
I benefitted from religiously diverse parents, a Southern Baptist mother and a Zen Buddhist father. I was encouraged to seek my own spiritual path, which is informed by a Christian upbringing and self study of Buddhism, Modern Paganism, and a devotion to the 8-Limbed path of Yoga.
I self-identify as neurodivergent, suspecting placement on the Autism Spectrum, though formal assessment remains unexplored due to economic and ethical considerations.
I have lived experience with and recovered from disordered eating, specifically Binge Eating Disorder and Atypical Anorexia, which ignited a passion for embodied approaches to eating disorder treatment.
Despite a privileged childhood, my adult life unfolded within the working poor demographic, navigating various helping professions that did not pay a living wage.
I am dedicated to social justice, actively engaging in anti-racism, and an advocate for collective liberation.
Tremendous gratitude to The Adaway Group for first introducing our practice to the notion of a cultural resume.