Emily Boncore

Licensed Professional Counselor
Founder of Awaken Psychotherapy

I specialize in working with trauma and resulting symptoms, including anxiety, disconnection from self and relationship challenges. With playfulness, curiosity, and compassion, we will explore all that makes you, you. Through our work together, my hope is for you to reclaim a strong and loving relationship with yourself, to start from within to create the change you want to see in your world. My hope it to help facilitate and co-create new and good experiences that lead to healing and transformation.

I bring a trauma-informed, relational and psychodynamic approach (meaning I want to unpack how your unconscious processes affect you). I will integrate “parts work”, experiential and somatic, mindfulness based care, attachment theory and affect regulation skills in our work. At times, I’ll challenge you to gain a different view of yourself and your world, and together, we will find new ways of being through pausing, checking in with what you are experiencing in the moment and “being with” the sensations moving through you. This experiential way of engaging in the therapeutic process prioritizes direct emotional engagement, fostering awareness of the mind-body connection, and our relationship in the room.

Clinical jargon aside, I believe relationships are an integral way forward into restoration, growth and healing and I am committed to developing a relationship with you in which you feel seen and known. My hope is to help you connect with yourself, find a deep appreciation for how your body supports and communicates with you and develop a kind approach to working with behaviors and beliefs that aren’t serving you.


Meredith Nunnelly

I am a former school social worker and have expertise in working with children and their families to feel successful in school and at home. I found such clarity and healing in my own therapy, which has pushed me to become a therapist myself. Even though it can be scary to take this first step, you are brave and I am here for you.

Whether you’re here for healing from experiencing a traumatic event, navigating a life transition, big or small, or detangling a mind full of confusing thoughts contributing to a disconnection between your heart and body, it is my joy and honor to walk alongside you. My hope is to create a safe environment and deep relationship with you for you to feel heard and known. I wholeheartedly believe that you are capable and you are the expert in your own life, and I am here to support you on your journey.

My approach to therapy is grounded in empathy and compassion. I am committed to work together with you to set therapeutic goals and create the appropriate treatment plan. In our sessions, I draw from different therapeutic modalities but ultimately allowing you to drive how you want therapy to go. People are created for connection and I would love to connect.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker