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Virtual Therapy In Ontario, In Person Therapy in Hamilton, Oakville & London

Emma Hirsch

Emma believes that a strong therapeutic relationship is the foundation for meaningful change. She works with children, teens, and adults and understands how confusing and overwhelming anxiety, OCD, or intrusive thoughts can feel at any age, but especially for a child who struggles to express what they’re experiencing. She creates a warm, age-appropriate space where kids and teens feel safe to be themselves, while also working with adults, couples, and families navigating self-esteem struggles, perfectionism, body image concerns, emotional regulation difficulties, life transitions, relationship challenges, and family conflict.

Emma understands that your story is unique, and works collaboratively to help you navigate the experiences and patterns contributing to your current concerns. Her goal is to help you strengthen communication, deepen your relationships, develop coping skills, and build confidence in navigating life’s challenges while creating meaningful, lasting change.

Emma’s approach draws from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and mindfulness-based interventions, tailored to fit your age, your goals, and whether you’re working through something individually, as a couple, or as a family. Whatever brings you in, Emma works alongside you to build stronger coping skills, better communication, and steady movement toward the life you’re trying to build

Therapeutic Approach:

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Adlerian
  • Attachment-Based
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
  • Compassion Focused Therapy
  • Dialectical Behaviour (DBT)
  • Emotionally Focused
  • Existential
  • Experiential Therapy
  • Family Systems
  • Integrative
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  • Mindfulness Based (MBCT)
  • Motivational Interviewing (MI)
  • Narrative
  • Person-Centred
  • Psychodynamic
  • Relational
  • Solution Focused
  • Trauma Informed

Specialities:

  • ADHD
  • Anxiety
  • Behavioural Issues
  • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
  • Codependency
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • Divorce
  • Eating Disorders
  • Education and Learning Disabilities
  • Family Conflict
  • Grief
  • Infidelity
  • Life Transitions
  • Marital and Premarital
  • Mood Disorders
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
  • Peer Relationships
  • Personality Disorders
  • Relationship Issues
  • School Issues
  • Self Esteem
  • Self-Harming
  • Stress
  • Suicidal IDeation
  • Trauma and PTSD
  • Women’s Issues

Supports

  • Family Therapy Hamilton Children
  • Emotion Focused Therapy Adolescents
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder Hamilton, Anxiety Therapy Hamilton, CBT Hamilton, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Hamilton, Cognitive behavioral treatment Hamilton, CBT therapy Hamilton ,Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Couples
  • Families

Credentials:

  • Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology – Yorkville University (expected 2027)
  • Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (Minor in Criminology) – Wilfrid Laurier University (2023)
  • Graduate Certificate in Addictions and Mental Health – Humber College (2024)
  • Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) – College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)
  • Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) – Student Member
  • Standard First Aid & CPR-C/AED (2024)
  • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) – LivingWorks (2024)
  • CBT and Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP) for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Social Anxiety, and Phobias – PESI
  • Certified Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Professional (C-DBT) – PESI
  • Introduction to the Foundations of Infant and Early Mental Health – The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
  • Dr. Sue Johnson’s Intensive Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) – PESI
Therapist Location Fees & Session Cost
In person Oakville and Virtual Individual $150 per session-sliding scale available
In person Oakville and Virtual Couples $200 per session-sliding scale available

Favourite Quotes

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t”

– John Green

“You are enough just as you are”

– Brené Brown

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