Emily Smith
Bridging Hope Therapeutic Services
Credentials:
MSW, RSW, CPT
Population Served:
School age (e.g. age 5-12), Adolescents/Youth (e.g. age 12+), Adults (18+), Couples, Family (2 or more members)
Language(s):
English
CPT Since:
2021-01-16
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Emily Smith is a Registered Social Worker with the OCSWSSW. Emily has her Masters of Social Work from the University of Toronto, with a specialization in Children and Their Families. Emily is a Certified Play Therapist and a member of the CAPT. Emily is an EMDR Child Specialist and an EMDR Sandtray Specialist certified by the AGATE Institute, and a member of EMDR Canada. Emily is trained and certified in the SSP and RRP through Unyte. Emily is also a member of the OASW. She is an upstanding member of all of her professional registrations. Emily offers a safe and supportive therapeutic environment where children, youth, adults, couples, and families can process the struggles and barriers they may be encountering in their life. Emily will work side-by-side with you to manage life’s stressors. She offers a person-centered and strengths-based approach. Through collaborative goal-setting, she works with clients to tailor the intervention to each individual’s needs. She believes that people are the experts of their lives, and believes in hope and resiliency. She has strong interpersonal and attuned listening skills that enable her to build trusting relationships. Emily’s clients have told her that she is caring and compassionate. Emily is passionate about supporting children and their families in their healing journeys, helping them to achieve their goals, and strengthen their functioning and wellbeing as individual members and as a family unit. Emily uses an eclectic approach to therapy, personalizing treatment to each client, pulling from those modalities best suited to support each person. Emily’s specialties are in both Play Therapy and EMDR. Emily also specializes in the Safe and Sound Protocol and the Rest and Restore Protocol. She practices principles and techniques from other modalities such as: CBT, Narrative Therapy, EFT, Mindfulness, and Solution-Focused Therapy. Emily practices from a trauma-informed and attachment-based lens.