EMILY ZOBANOV

Sees Individuals (17+)

I have always been drawn to helping others and knew I wanted to choose a helping profession which ultimately led to my graduation from Liberty University with a master's degree in Professional Counseling in 2012. I have worked with people who are struggling with substance abuse, women's issues, trauma, depression, anxiety, boundary issues, co-dependency, grief and loss, obsessive-compulsive disorder, difficult life transitions, career goals, and spiritual problems.

God can use the counseling relationship to help people find relief, hope, and restoration. I often incorporate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a well-researched therapy approach that has proven effectiveness in helping overcome destructive thinking patterns and behaviors that lead to feeling stuck and downhearted instead of free and joyful.

Here is some info about me so I seem like a real person and not so one-dimensional. I met my future husband, Ilya, on a mission trip after college when I had no idea what to do with my life and decided it was time to surrender things to God. It was friendship at first, but God worked in beautiful ways over the next year and we've been happily married since 2002. We have two wonderful kids, a dog, and a cat.

A few of my quests in life are to be a wise and godly mother and wife, to learn Russian well so I can communicate with my in-laws better, to avoid pickles or anything that tastes like a pickle, to always have a cat or a dog so home feels like home and become pretty okay at painting with watercolors.