Star of Hope / Emily Schmidt

Emily has a passion for being the hands and feet of Jesus to hurting kids and their families. She

enjoys helping kids work through--and even overcome--negative impacts of trauma. This

includes using play therapy, equine assisted psycho-therapy and mentoring for parents/foster

parents. Along with helping families impacted by trauma, Emily finds great joy in teaching kids

about the love of God, both in the counseling setting and through a discipleship curriculum

called F.A.R.M. Kids (forgiven and redeemed man) that uses horses to help people better

understand who God is. The name of her company is Star of Hope LLC (Star is for Safety,

Trust, Attachment, Redemption; Hope is for Heaven's door, Opened by the Cross, through a

Personal relationship with the Eternal King).