Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT

Asking questions is my actual job. CA Therapist helping rewrite #exvangelical & religious trauma stories. she/her
(Tweets aren't therapy.)

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

I still love lurking on Twitter, and there's no great social platform right now, but if you're leaving for IG, you can follow me there at: EmilyMaynardLMFT.

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

@mystateofgrace8 Thanks, Grace! I'm glad it was helpful, and let me know if you have more ideas. I feel like this one will always need updating.

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

If it is better for you to have no contact or not spend holidays with your conservative parents, that is also valid! But I know some people haven't needed to set those limits yet, and I hope this helps you take care of yourself well if you are going to be around MAGA family.

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

One of the best parts of being done with my MA and clinical training is feeling like I have brain space to write again! So I wrote about ways to manage holidays with conservative parents/family: https://t.co/p728lChY5o

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

But now I'm excited to have my own practice focused on supporting #exvangelicals, Purity Culture quitters, & religious trauma survivors. I'm also happy to help answer questions about WHAT IS THERAPY and WHY IS IT SO EXPENSIVE. We'll keep healing & growing together. <3

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

It's true! 6 years after I started grad school (thinking Hillary Clinton was about to be president lol), I'm a licensed therapist in California! I feel like Twitter was my first master's degree, sort of, and the first place I learned to speak up.

[Antonia @antoniaterrazas]

Do I have any California friends looking for a rad therapist? My pal @emelina has a new website and is taking clients! She specializes in supporting Exvangelicals, religious trauma survivors, and people in faith transition or deconstruction. Check her out! https://t.co/N5yMqRyupg

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

and we should be looking to them now as a model and looking to support their work, fund their work, and expand it in this next chapter." - @rtraister on MSNBC tonight.

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

"Use hope not as some feel good measure, but as a tactical necessity, and a moral and civic responsibility. To feel the hope and keep moving, and keep fighting, and keep organizing, and to look for the people who have been doing it throughout, while all the messages were

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

'everything's fine, nothing's going to be overturned, you're all overreacting, you're all being hysterical.' There have been people doing the work of getting people abortion care, reproductive care, on the ground through the erosions of Roe for many decades,

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

Listen to the people who were not surprised by this. Donate to orgs who have been doing this work for years for pregnant people being denied care.

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

For ex-pro-lifers and ex-evangelical-culture-warriors, I invite you to let your guilt make you determined, active, and relentless in pursuing reproductive justice for all.

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

More than anything, growing up the way I did meant I'm used to losing and never giving up?

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

The end of Roe was 40+ years in the making by people who constantly exploited everything they could about the Republican party to make their cruel beliefs a reality. The Democratic party right now won't protect us, but we can take it over and make it one that does.

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

@prairiemousie Awesome! It's been a game changer for me for years, which is why I wanted to get trained in it! I'm so glad it's helping.

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

Still working some of this out, but I'm trained in a trauma therapy technique called EMDR, and I've been thinking about how trained therapists can offer effective support to people traumatized by anti-choice ideas. The only official group I found was for clinicians who

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

For those of us raised to believe that "abortion is murder," then the experience of abortion may be particularly traumatic. Make sure your therapist is treating THAT BELIEF as the traumatic ingredient, rather than actually treating you like someone who killed someone else.

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

but you'd LIKE to be, please reach out and I will do the best I can to connect you with resources. I love EMDR treatment, https://t.co/xq64QM2a6V but any religious trauma therapy may be able to help you, too. https://t.co/vX7IPr0aEt

[Emily Maynard, MA, LMFT @emelina]

@thepursuinglife RIGHT??! Spent most of my therapy session today talking through this, too. Glad you've got someone who gets you!