*Emily is not currently accepting new clients.

Emily Knott, LPC

Assistant Director

Pay attention, Be astonished, Tell about it. —Mary Oliver

Emily is a white, cisgender, neurodivergent woman navigating the world in a small-fat body, and as a cancer survivor/ing human, living in an ongoing relationship with grief, healing, and reclamation. She has dedicated her career to providing care across diverse settings, including private practice, community mental health, and specialized therapeutic environments. Now serving as Assistant Director of Alive Holistic Counseling, Emily brings her experience and passion for growth, collaboration, and healing into a leadership role—one grounded in the belief that leadership is relational, not just positional. Her work has always been community-rooted: formed in shared rooms, through lived moments and clinical care, across digital spaces, and around board game tables.

Raised in the southeastern United States, Emily was enculturated within southern traditions of hospitality, storytelling, and deep relational ties—alongside inherited silences around harm, race, and power. She holds both the gifts and the reckonings of that lineage with care. Her ongoing journey toward anti-racism and anti-oppression is grounded in a deep commitment to accountability, unlearning, and systemic repair.

Therapeutically, Emily has advanced training in ILF Neurofeedback, EMDR, and Game Master Counseling (a framework that uses Dungeons & Dragons and other TTRPGs to support healing and growth). Though she no longer provides direct care, she remains rooted in the original work of holding stories—in a way that honors personal lore and the evolution of the whole person. She moves at the intersection of systems awareness and both the quiet and loud work of change. Emily believes that wholeness sometimes includes contradiction, that healing is not linear, and that the shortest distance between humans is storytelling.

Having worked within—and been shaped by—institutional systems of care, Emily holds awareness of the harm they have caused and continue to cause, while also recognizing their potential to support meaningful work. She remains accountable for the ways she has benefited from these systems and is committed to dismantling the hierarchies and gatekeeping embedded in mental health care. Through this work, she strives to nurture inclusive, brave, and healing environments—for clients, clinicians, and the broader communities Alive Holistic Counseling serves.