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 Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (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 Canadian Association for Play Therapy (CAPT). Emily is an EMDR Child Specialist and an EMDR Sandtray Specialist certified by the AGATE Institute. Emily is also a member of EMDR Canada and the Ontario Association of Social Workers (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 Play Therapy in her work with children. Emily also practices principles and techniques from other modalities such as: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Emily practices from a trauma-informed and attachment-based lens.