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 is continually exploring ways to engage individual and collective healing efforts of Self, Body and Land, and to de-colonize the healing experience with the individuals and communities she works with. 

Emily holds Indigenous ancestral lineage 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. Although Emily has no personal reference point to the lived experience of Indigenous Peoples, she holds great reverence to the teachings and ways of being that have been gifted to her, and acknowledges the impacts of intergenerational trauma on her family of origin. Emily is committed to furthering our collective understanding of the pervasive impacts of colonization, cultural genocide, and the neocolonial systems and structures that continue today. 

She is also a mother to two young boys, and lives on the traditional unceded lands of the Pawtucket Tribe of the Massuchett Peoples in what is now known as Arlington, Massachusetts, where she maintains a small private practice.