Meet Emily Burke, LMHC: Dedicated Mental Health Support at MCG

About Emily

Therapy languages: English

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Emily Burke is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with experience in inpatient, residential, Partial Hospitalization (PHP), Intensive Outpatient (IOP), and outpatient levels of care.  Her clinical interests include depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and substance use.  Emily is certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) through Evergreen Certifications and has extensive experience facilitating psychoeducational groups providing DBT skills.  She believes that helping clients gain insight into their problems, combined with skills-based interventions, is key to building a life worth living.  Emily uses an integrative approach to therapy combining DBT, Motivational Interviewing (MI), and somatic therapy.  

Emily earned her undergraduate degree at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), where she majored in Psychology and minored in Women's Studies.  She then went on to earn her Master's Degree at Boston College.  Emily did her clinical internship at BMC Brighton (formerly St. Elizabeth's Medical Center), where she worked with patients struggling with addiction in the inpatient and IOP levels of care.  

Emily has also conducted clinical research both independently and collaboratively on topics including eating disorders, suicidality, social support, and sleep.  She has presented her research at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) and the Austen Riggs-Yale Conference.