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Emily Licholai, AMFT

Therapy Format
individuals
couples
Treatment Focus
burnout, emotion-regulation, family-conflict, infidelity, marital-concerns, personal-growth, racial-identity, relational-concerns, stress, suicidal-ideation, womens-issues, anxiety, depression, trauma-and-ptsd, relationship-issues, sleep-insomnia, self-esteem, life-transitions
Types of Therapy
Attachment-based/Relational Therapy
Existential Therapy
Feminist
Gestalt
Humanistic
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Transpersonal
Somatic Experiencing
Insurance Accepted
Private Pay
Can Prescribe Medication: No
Offers Sliding Scale: yes
Accepting New Therapy Fund Clients: No
Last modified: March 4, 2026

Emily Licholai, AMFT

In-Person / Virtual: in-person, tele
License Number(s): AMFT152041
States / Provinces Served: California
Ethnicity: Japanese
Racial Identity / Culture: asian-american
Languages Spoken: English
Sex/Gender: Female
When words get stuck, your feelings don’t have to. Together we’ll untangle what’s inside so you can live with more ease and connect more authentically. You might be someone who reads the room before you speak, adapts easily, and carries others’ needs before your own. Maybe you’ve spent years being the dependable one, but underneath there’s a quiet exhaustion from it all.
My work is about helping you come home to yourself. I work with clients who feel caught between cultures, expectations, and identities, people who want to rest without guilt, and feel more at ease in their relationships and bodies.
My approach is humanistic and grounded in Gestalt therapy. I see myself not as the expert, but as a collaborator in your process, helping you notice what feels true, reconnect with your sense of self, and move through the world with more authenticity and balance.