Emily Van Cannon LCPC, LADC, CCS
OWNER, FOUNDER & CLINICAL DIRECTOR
SHE/HER/HERS
Specialties:
Adolescents and Adults
Trauma
Addiction
Anxiety
Grief and loss
Office Hours:
MON | 11AM - 3PM
WEDS + THURS | 9:30AM-3PM SAT 10AM-1PM
Rate: $155 / session OON, Self-pay
Insurance: Anthem, Aetna, Optum, Harvard Pilgrim, Community Health Options, United Behavioral
Education
M.S., Clinical Mental Health Counseling — Southern New Hampshire University
M.A., Transformative Language Arts — Goddard College
B.A., Psychology & English — Kalamazoo College
Licensure
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) — State of Maine
Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC) — State of Maine
Certified Clinical Supervisor (CCS) — State of Maine
Clinical Training
Narrative Therapy, Year-Long Advanced Program — Evanston Family Therapy Center
Narrative Therapy, Next Steps (9-month program) — Narrative Therapy Initiative, Boston
Brainspotting Phases I, II & III + Specialty Trainings (Certification in progress)
Fertile Heart Facilitator Training (2023)
DEEP Provider, Maine State Certified (5 years) — Driver's Education Evaluation Program
Community Training & Education
Trauma, Vicarious Trauma & Resilience
Mood Disorders & Thought Disorders
Delivered to community mental health organizations across Maine since 2015
Professional Memberships
American Mental Health Counselors Association (since 2015)
Maine Mental Health Counselors Association (since 2015)
You are the only one you are truly stuck with. Consider making friends.
I started Heart Stone Counseling in 2015 as a solo practice. Those years shaped everything that came after. When the pandemic made clear how deep the need for mental health care had become, I made the decision to grow. By 2022, Heart Stone had transitioned into a group practice, and I was intentional about what that meant. I wanted to build something specific: a practice for people who experience healing as a creative process, grounded in relational approaches and the science of how the brain and body actually change.
As a Certified Clinical Supervisor, I supervise both licensed clinicians and graduate interns. What matters most to me is helping each clinician find their own authentic voice, the kind of therapist only they can be, while holding high standards for ethics, documentation, and care. I've worked across a wide range of settings over the past 24 years: long-term residential programs, community-based services, domestic violence advocacy, co-occurring disorders treatment, jails, crisis units, and group homes for adults living with serious mental illness. Those experiences gave me perspective I carry into this work every day. Change is possible for everyone, and it has never been my job to decide what it means.
I came to Maine in 2001 to attend the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, where I studied documentary writing and radio. I planned to stay three months. Then the snow started to melt, and the Old Port revealed its cobblestones and park benches, and I stayed. Maine has shaped my work more than I can fully account for. The smell of the woods, the first sight of the ocean each season, the way this place holds both wildness, weirdness, and quiet. I spent five and a half years with Portland Playback Theatre. I've facilitated therapeutic writing groups in jails, shelters, outpatient settings, and community programs, and I've been delivering trainings on trauma, vicarious trauma, resilience, mood disorders, and thought disorders to community mental health organizations across Maine since 2015.
Clinically, I draw from Narrative Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Brainspotting, Motivational Interviewing, somatic approaches, and expressive arts. I've been known to toss in a poem here and there.
I live in South Portland with my family, my pug Charlie Bucket, and our guinea pigs Napoleon and Pedro.
Emily is currently pausing taking on new clients. Emily can be requested for court-ordered evaluations.
