BA, Trinity University
A member of Anxiety Institute’s founding team, Emily Geiger has over five years of administrative and operations experience in the healthcare field, specializing in Human Resources, compliance, and vendor management. Emily is an experienced HR professional skilled in managing the entire employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and payroll, with a proven record of fostering high-performing teams and strong employee retention. Emily has successfully spearheaded numerous licensure audits and renewals across four states and multiple licensing entities, inclusive of the Department of Public Health (CT), Department of Children and Families (CT) Department of Health (NJ), Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (VA), and Department of Children and Families (FL). With experience in licensure acquisition and employee recruitment, Emily played a key leadership role in launching three Anxiety Institute locations, guiding their growth from inception to fully self-sufficient operations.
Emily has numerous years of experience in providing direct care to struggling youth and adolescents, which affords her perspective on the employee experience and licensure regulations. Emily worked as a group mediator at Criminal Restorative Youth Justice, an organization dedicated to keeping youth out of prison by providing restitution for perpetrators and their victims. Emily also worked as a teacher and consultant at Peninsula Bridge Youth Program facilitating access to educational and therapeutic services for low-income, predominantly English as a Second Language (ESL) students and their families.
Her Inspiration:
I attended a therapeutic boarding school after battling with depression in my early teens. This experience served as a catalyst for my keen interest in entering the healthcare field to help others who need similar hope and inspiration as I once did.