Emberlene "Ember" Cossette , LICSW

Emberlene "Ember" Cossette is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Washington. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, sleep problems, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma, and compassion fatigue. Ember aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so people can use it in day-to-day life.

Ember brings seven years of clinical experience working in mental health settings. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington, Tacoma and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Saint Martin’s University. Those training years shaped her interest in trauma, attachment, and complex life transitions.

Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies. She also uses trauma-focused methods when past harm affects current coping. In sessions she helps people spot patterns, test small changes, and build manageable routines that improve mood and sleep.

Ember pays attention to issues that often come with caregiving, blended families, body image, and abandonment or attachment concerns. She works with people coping with anger, bipolar-related challenges, eating and food-related issues, and the fallout of domestic violence or separation.

Therapy with Ember is collaborative and goal-oriented. She supports people who want clear steps to manage anxiety, rebuild self-esteem, improve communication, or navigate big life changes. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.

How Ember's approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the client's pace and priorities, helping people feel heard and decide what matters most to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and offers specific tools to change unhelpful patterns that feed anxiety, low mood, or sleep problems. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on the effects of past harm and uses careful, paced methods to reduce distress and strengthen coping skills.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ember will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then use techniques from these approaches together to fit the situation. That shared planning helps make sessions feel useful and focused on short-term gains and longer-term change.

Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a written back-and-forth for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep work on coping skills consistent over time.