Emily Lapolice is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F), author, educator, and faculty member at the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at JRI. She has been a psychotherapist for nearly 2 decades, specializing in complex trauma, perinatal mental health, and embodiment practices.
Over the past 20 years, Emily has worked in New York City and Boston based hospital, school, and other mental health settings with a diverse group of immigrants, refugees, and other marginalized populations impacted by trauma and oppression.
Emily has Indigenous ancestral heritage with the Mi’kmaq and Huron First Nations tribes of what is now known as Nova Scotia and Southern Ontario, Canada; and the Seminole tribe of what is now known as Florida, United States. She holds great reverence to the Indigenous teachings and Ways of Being that have been gifted to her, and is deeply committed to understanding the pervasive impacts of colonization, and the neocolonial systems and structures that continue today.
Emily is continually exploring ways to engage individual and collective healing efforts of Self, Body and Land, and to de-colonize the healing process with the individuals and communities she works with.
She is also a mother to two young boys, and lives on the traditional unceded lands of the Massuchett People and the Pawtucket Tribe in what is now known as Arlington, MA outside Boston, where she maintains a small private practice.