Emma is a Registered Social Worker with a passion for working with families, adolescents and young adults. Emma has her Master’s in Clinical Social Work from the University of Calgary with specialization in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Emma’s integrative approach to therapy is grounded in respect, empathy and a deep belief in each client’s potential for growth and change. Emma works from a strengths-based and highly relational perspective, drawing on systemic thinking and centering on helping individuals explore their personal strengths, while navigating family and social dynamics, developing meaningful connections both within themselves and others.

Emma’s clinical philosophy is deeply rooted in attachment theory, which tells us the importance of strong, healthy relationships that form in early childhood and can inform the ways that we understand and relate to the world throughout our lives. Childhood wounds like attachment disruptions or relational traumas can impact our thinking and ways of being without us know, leaving people feeling confused, isolated or lonely. Using a variety of trauma-informed, somatic-based practices, including Cue-Centred and Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Emma helps clients to uncover the thought patterns and physiological responses that have limited them in the past, and helps clients to reauthor their stories, so that they might become the protagonists of their own lives, build resilience and smash their goals.

Emma uses her training in Systemic Family Therapy to focuses on empowering families to deconstruct problematic patterns of behaviour and collaborate to co-construct healthier responses or coping strategies to the harder parts of life, through improved communication and awareness both of the self and others.