Emma Pile, LCSW, Director of Programs and Clinical Experience, Clinical Director

Emma Pile (she/her) is a psychotherapist, the Director of Programs and Clinician Experience, and a Clinical Director who works with children, adolescents, and adults. Prior to joining MPG, Emma worked as a bereavement specialist for a hospice program where she supported children and adults navigating grief, with a focus in traumatic loss.

Emma is deeply committed to working with children and families, and takes a systems-oriented approach that considers the many layers shaping a child’s life. She collaborates closely with caregivers and other supports to understand each child within the context of their relationships, environments, and developmental needs. Her work is grounded in a relational, psychodynamic framework, with particular attention to how clients experience and relate to others—and to the therapist—within the therapeutic space. She incorporates a somatic perspective, supporting awareness of how emotional experience, early relationships, and broader societal and oppressive forces are held in the body.

Emma also specializes in working with athletes across the lifespan and spectrum of sport. As a long-distance runner and a track and cross country coach at Bard College, she brings both lived and professional insight into the demands of training and competition. She supports athletes in navigating performance pressure, injury, burnout, and identity, as well as the complex relationship between self-worth and achievement, using the therapeutic relationship as a space for exploration and growth.

As Clinical Director, Emma provides leadership and clinical supervision from a psychodynamic and relational perspective, supporting clinicians in developing thoughtful, attuned work. She has expertise in grief, trauma, attachment, relationship challenges, and identity exploration.

Emma believes in each individual’s capacity for change, and is interested in creating therapeutic relationships grounded in collaboration, consent, and exploration, while working to place each client within the complexity of their lived experience.She approaches the therapeutic process from an intersectional lens, staying curious and committed to the impact of identity, systems of power, and lived experience, and believes firmly that both the client’s failures and her own are integral to connection and growth.