Emmily Lai

Emmily Lai is an art therapist and registered psychotherapist (qualifying), who holds a Masters Degree in Creative Arts Therapies from Concordia University. She believes art therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses art materials and art making to help people express their emotions, thoughts, and feelings. She believes using art in therapy can help people understand and connect with themselves, their world and to others. Emmily is an educator, artist and art therapist who is passionate about supporting people through their life experiences, intersectional identities and abilities to develop confidence, growth and well-being through art-making. She takes a person-centered approach to understand her clients. She welcomes all into a safe, creative space that is culturally sensitive and inclusive. Emmily works with youth, teens and young adults to address self-esteem, identity, anxiety, depression, neurodiversity, emotional dysregulation, grief and loss, life transitions and others.