Emma’s Favorite Quotes:

  • “We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”

    - Gwendolyn Brooks 

  • “Maybe the journey home to yourself is just as important as being there.”

    - Dani Leah Strauss

Emma Gray Mankin

LCSW-A

(she/her)

ACCEPTS AETNA and BCBS

Virtual and In-person (DURHAM Office)

You are exactly where you’re supposed to be.

Feeling seen, heard, and accepted is essential for healing, growth, and change. I am committed to offering a warm, non-judgmental space where your authentic self can breathe. It is a courageous thing to begin inquiry of the Self, and I am humbled to walk alongside you in that brave journey.

My name is Emma Gray Mankin and I received my Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania. I am currently licensed as an LCSWA in North Carolina (#P018611). In spending the majority of the past decade building home here in North Carolina, I am grateful to continue serving the individuals in this community.

My conviction that we truly are “each other’s harvest” is what has grounded my decade of work in the field. This work has spanned from social-care farming, to legal advocacy, to education, to medical case management, all with a through line of integrating individual and systemic healing.

In these various environments, it became clear to me the power of the therapeutic relationship. I value building a relationship that empowers you to explore your delicate inner ecology from a place of agency & hope. I use a holistic and eclectic approach that draws both on your inner resources and those of the natural world. The central modalities that support my work are Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), grounded in a somatic context.

I often work with:

  • Individuals specifically interested in IFS/Parts Work

  • Individuals experiencing ambiguous grief & loss.

  • Those managing chronic health issues

  • Women living with PMS/PMDD

  • Generalized anxiety and depression

  • Deconstruction of sexual shame