Emily Ann Peterson

The way I join my clients through their change, loss, and re-invention is reflected by my own story and lived experiences. Before entering the mental health field, I spent two decades as a professional musician, teacher, songwriter, and author... I’m transparent about my experiences with chronic illness, career-halting diagnoses, religious trauma, sexual violence, and disordered eating. There are also particular joys, tragedies, and absurdities that came with growing up undiagnosed neurodivergent, coming of age in a racist South, living overseas with culture shock, and navigating the music industry as a woman. I’m also deeply shaped by the queer, anti-racist, body-liberationist, and neurodivergent communities I’ve been part of. All of this explains why I welcome heretics, whistle-blowers, late bloomers, those who speak truth to power, or who’ve “never quite fit the mold.”