Founder, Clinical Director                                                                                          emma@ccatchicago.com

Emma Rand, LCPC, ATR is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Registered Art Therapist who brings creativity, empathy, and lived experience to her work. Inspired to pursue a career in mental health after navigating personal loss and difficulty, Emma understands how overwhelming it can feel to face life’s challenges—and how transformative therapy can be.

Emma creates a safe, uplifting, and nonjudgmental space where clients feel deeply seen and supported as they pursue their goals. She believes therapy is a collaborative journey, grounded in trust, respect, and a belief that each person is the expert of their own life. She blends traditional talk therapy with art-making to help clients explore emotions, gain clarity, and reconnect with themselves.

Drawing from evidence-based modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and solution-focused techniques, Emma helps clients manage anxiety, depression, life transitions, and stress. She specializes in job or career related stress issues, non-traditional relationship difficulties, working with individuals affected by family mental health challenges, including schizophrenia, hallucinations, and dementia. She works with teens, young adults, adults, and older adults. 

Emma has both personal and professional experience working with trans, intersex, nonbinary, and gender fluid individuals, and is deeply committed to providing affirming care. She is LGBTQ+ inclusive, sex-positive, and supportive of alternative lifestyles—creating a positive and validating space for people of all identities and backgrounds. 

Emma graduated from Adler University in 2019, and from there she worked in a variety of settings including as a Chicago Social Worker, group therapist and individual therapist on the IOP and PHP level, and in residential settings including Memory Support, and Skilled Nursing. 

“Therapy is about feeling connected and building trust—in yourself, in the process, and in your capacity.”