About Emily King

My name is Emily, and I love my job. When I was a senior in college and all my friends were getting jobs, all I could think about was how I just wanted to hang out with people. I wanted to sit with people, learn with them, enjoy them, hear their hearts and what they were thinking.

Fast forward many years later, and here I am. With my training, I am able to hear my client’s trauma and pain, anxieties and concerns. I am able to discern what they are missing in relationships. I couldn’t do that when I was a senior in college, but my heart was already here.

I have been married for 18 years to my husband, Jack. He is an Anglican priest. I am a sex therapist. Enter bad joke here. We have two amazing children, and we love reliving middle and high school humor through them.

When I am not at work or with my family, I love to read, walk with friends, get lattes from local coffee shops, watch British mysteries with Jack, shop at Marshall’s, and thrift and shop for vintage and antique treasures. I can’t wait to meet you!

Experience

I have been licensed as a marriage and family therapist in the state of Tennessee since 2017. I have worked in private practice since I was in graduate school in 2010 and have operated my own practice since 2021.

I am a Christian and a clinician. I practice clinical counseling from a faith-based perspective. My Christian faith guides what I think and how I operate. I do not expect you to be in the same place I am, but it’s important that you know!

I attended Richmont Graduate University for my Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy with a specialization in Christian Sex Therapy. Through the sex therapy track, I have developed a strength and passion for women’s health, sexual pain, postpartum mood disorders, and most recently, the struggles that women face with perimenopause. I struggled through postpartum anxiety and depression as a new mother, and I know the importance of counseling and feeling like I wasn’t alone in those early years.

I also have discovered a new passion for learning about hormone health within the perimenopause stage of a woman’s life. Knowledge of our bodies and how it affects our relationships and view of our self is vitally important. I enjoy talking with women about their experiences with relationships (marriage, growing children, friends), as we change with age.

While I am most passionate about women’s mental, physical, and spiritual health,  I do enjoy working with women in their 20’s and 30’s. These years can be stressful and very full decades of life, and it’s important for women to know their worth and identity and not be overcome with anxiety. Life transitions can be enjoyable while stressful, and I love walking alongside women as they learn themselves through the transitions.

How I Can Help

Over the past 13 years of practice, I found that I enjoy working most with:

  • women ages 14 and up
  • new mothers with postpartum challenges like anxiety and depression
  • women with narcissistic and borderline parents needing boundaries
  • couples pursuing deeper intimacy
  • parenting and behavior issues
  • women’s health and navigating hormone challenges during perimenopause and menopause

I believe that our families of origin in large part make us who we are now. It’s important to understand those relationships so we can understand ourselves better. When our core relationships are “off,” we can feel anxious, depressed, confused. It’s normal to come to therapy to get to the root of the relationship and what is causing the dissatisfaction. I believe it is important to remember who we were as child, what we experienced then, what we learned and from whom.

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