Emily Ingraham, LCSW
emily.ingraham@birchpsychology.com | 303.834.1026 ext. 12
Emily Ingraham is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been practicing as a trauma therapist, trainer, and consultant for the last 11 years. For much of her career she specialized in working with kids and families who have experienced complex and intergenerational trauma, and specifically focused on infant and early childhood mental health. In all her work, Emily is dedicated to changing the stigma around mental health from “what is wrong with you” to “what happened to you”.
Emily believes that we heal and grow in relationships and community with one another, and that you are the expert on your needs and life. She also believes strongly in the need for play and joy in the healing process, no matter the age, and works to bring these elements into all sessions.
Emily holds a B.A. in Communications and Law from Manhattanville College, and a M.S.W from Boston College. She has held a variety of positions in her career, including working in direct practice as a trauma therapist utilizing modalities such as EMDR, Attachment-Focused EMDR, Child Parent Psychotherapy, Neurofeedback and Neurostimulation. She works frequently with conditions such as anxiety and depression, and provides support for individuals and couples of the LGBTQIA+ community.
At Birch, Emily enjoys working with people across the lifespan. She has specialty in the areas of early childhood, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood!
She utilizes frameworks and modalities that stem from neuroscience and attachment (such as EMDR, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and EFT), as well as relational models with the integration of skill based approaches when appropriate, including CBT. She partners with each individual, couple, or family system from an anti-racist, anti-colonial, sex positive, queer and trans-affirming perspective.
Emily loves to explore the neuroscience behind trauma, including impact on the brain, body, and attachment system, and has been training community organizations in Boston and Denver on these topics since the beginning of her career. She also teaches at Denver University in the Graduate School of Social Work and is available for consultation and speaking engagements. She can be reached at emily.ingraham@birchpsychology.com and 734.359.7974 ext. 12
MSW, Clinical Practice, Children Youth and Family Concentration 05/2014
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA;
BA, Communication Studies, Minors in Music and Legal Studies 05/2010
Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Trained in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, EMDR, Attachment-Focused EMDR, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Trauma-Focused CBT, Child Parent Psychotherapy; Narrative Therapy; Solution-Focused Therapy and Play Therapy.