Emma Atwood, BA

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Emma Atwood joined Collaborative Insight Counseling Associates (CICA) as a Clinical Psychotherapist Intern in September 2024. She is offering individual therapy under the guidance of independently licensed CICA staff including Emily Feigenberg, LICSW, and Raihaan Attawala, LMHC.

Emma is passionate about fostering a space in which her clients feel safe to express their identities, hopes, and insecurities without judgment. Her approach is grounded in the belief that strong client-therapist relationships are essential for inspiring growth and insight. Emma is particularly interested in helping clients explore how early attachment experiences shape current relational patterns, often drawing on the therapeutic alliance to facilitate healing. Through this collaborative process, she strives to empower her clients as agents of change in their lives.

Emma’s specialties include anxiety, relationship issues, trauma, attachment-based challenges, racial identity, and adoption. As a transracial adoptee with White parents, Emma recognizes the impacts of systems and prioritizes providing culturally sensitive therapy with respect to identities such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and religion. Her clinical orientation integrates psychodynamic, relational-cultural, cognitive-behavioral, and trauma-focused approaches.

Currently pursuing her Master of Social Work degree at Boston University, Emma holds a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in music from Mount Holyoke College. Her diverse experience includes working with children and adults from various cultural backgrounds and conducting clinical research on self-harm at Harvard University. She has also mentored immigrant high school students through Enroot and volunteered in the music therapy program at Mass General Hospital. Her most recent clinical training includes earning certificates in two trauma-focused therapies, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR), and providing school counseling to children and adolescents struggling with challenges such as anxiety, ADHD, relationship issues, and suicidal ideation. Emma looks forward to further advancing her clinical skills at CICA during her final year of graduate training. 

Fun fact: Emma is currently learning how to rollerblade and navigate hills without losing her balance. When she’s not searching for smooth terrain to practice on, she enjoys music, creative projects, and spending time outdoors. 

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