About Emily Burrup
Emily Burrup is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) in Colorado. She earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Minnesota with a specialization in clinical mental health, and her BS in psychology from Brigham Young University.
Before joining FRTC, Emily facilitated modified DBT groups in an adult intensive outpatient program, teaching skills and symptom management, and carried her own caseload of individual therapy clients. Earlier, she worked with teens at a youth and family services agency, where she managed a caseload in a youth diversion program and designed and co-led an anxiety group that used art to build coping skills. She also worked as a behavioral care technician at a residential eating disorder treatment center.
Emily trained in research as an undergraduate in a pediatric health psychology lab, administering assessments and studying emotion regulation, eating behavior, and chronic illness in adolescents and young adults. She has presented that work at the Society of Pediatric Psychology annual conference.
Emily has particular interest in adolescents and adults navigating intense emotions, anxiety, and relationship difficulties. She draws on DBT and CBT, which look at emotions, thoughts, and behavior together, to help clients understand the patterns that keep them stuck and build skills they can use in daily life.
Emily also provides Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for obsessive-compulsive disorder. In ERP, clients gradually face the thoughts and situations that trigger their obsessions while practicing not doing the compulsion, so the distress loses its hold over time. DBT skills can support that work when exposure feels too overwhelming to start.
At FRTC, Emily leads DBT skills classes, provides individual therapy for teens and adults, and works with teens in the Teen DBT Program. She brings a warm, strengths-based approach focused on collaboration and practical, lasting change.