My Approach
I welcome people of all identities and backgrounds.
I aim to honour how these shape our experiences, including sexuality, gender, race, culture, religion, spirituality, health, and ability.
My personal and professional ethics are rooted in anti-oppressive and decolonizing theories and practices.
I am committed to bringing equity into my practice by centering and learning from marginalized voices through books, consultations, and trainings to better align my work with these principles.
What Brings People Here
Most clients find their way to me through referrals from other therapists, healthcare providers, and community organizations.
They are often seeking a deeper approach that makes room for complexity and nuance rather than surface level conversation, homework or overly simplistic, one-size-fits-all approaches.
Clients who tend to resonate with my style often appreciate:
• A nuanced understanding of human behaviour that goes beyond labels, diagnoses, or surface-level explanations. Leaving space for complexity, contradiction, and the parts of life that don't fit neatly into categories.
• A collaborative relationship that centers your insights, observations, and lived experience, including all the work you've done so far. Offering guidance, reflection, and thoughtful questions to help you clarify and deepen your understanding
• A slow & steady approach that explores the broader context of your experiences rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction and solutions. With no formal homework, pushing for certain outcomes or rushing to conclusions
I’m Katherine, a Registered Psychotherapist specializing in trauma treatment and recovery.
My path into psychotherapy began in rehabilitative healthcare, through work in hospitals and clinics across Canada, Scotland, and Haiti.
In 2013, I began training at the Ontario Psychotherapy and Counselling Program in Toronto, completing a five-year program in psychodynamic therapy, including two years of supervised clinical residency and study in relational therapy, attachment theory, developmental psychology, intersubjective theory, pharmacology, and neuroscience.
My thesis was focused on working with complex, unspoken trauma using psychodynamic therapy and expressive arts to support the integration of experiences that couldn't be expressed in words.
I started seeing clients under supervision in 2016 and joined the College of Registered Psychotherapists in 2018.
Since then, I have practiced psychotherapy full-time, while also facilitating expressive arts therapy groups at community health centres and residential treatment centres for addictions and PTSD.
Clinically, my practice leans toward longer-term approaches, such as psychodynamic therapy and triphasic trauma therapy. This slower, paced approach is important when doing processing, especially in developmental and attachment trauma and complicated grief.
The majority of my clients come to therapy for ongoing support (5+ years), however I welcome people seeking shorter term therapy and folks who prefer to come and go as needed.
I also provide therapy to victims of violence, crime or sudden tragedy as an approved provider for the Victim Quick Response Program (VQRP+)
To ensure that my practice remains engaged, ethical and well supported, I regularly meet with a clinical supervisor and take part in consultation and training to stay up to date on developments in the field.
I can help with:
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Trauma, PTSD and Complex Trauma
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Grief, Loss and Bereavement
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Childhood and Attachment Trauma
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Agoraphobia, Social Withdrawal and Isolation
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Narcissistic Abuse, No Contact and Estrangement
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Overwhelm, Burnout, Treatment Resistant Symptoms
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Chronic Illness and Medical Trauma
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Personal Growth and Self-esteem
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Intimacy, Communication and Boundaries
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First Responders and Frontline Workers
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Therapy for Therapists
Trainings & Certifications
2018
Ontario Psychotherapy and Counselling Program Graduate
Create Institute Expressive Arts Therapy Professional Program
2019
Advanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Certification
Grief 101 - Virtual Hospice at MyGrief.ca
ASIST Suicide Intervention Training
Motivational Interviewing Level 1
Trauma-Informed Care: Working with Immigrants and Refugees
2020
Fundamentals of Somatic Experiencing - A Polyvagal Perspective
Confronting Microaggressions and Racial Biases in Therapy
Positive Spaces for Transgender & Non-Binary Folks
Grief & Loss in Trauma Treatment
Group Dynamics and Identity - The Berne Institute
Geriatric Depression: Treatment interventions
Beyond Trauma-Informed: The Biology of Thriving
2021
PTSD: Dealing with Shock and Trauma
Experiential, Process and Support and Group Therapy Facilitation
Grief and Relationships: Exploring loss in community
Use of Dreams in Clinical Practice: A Depth Psychology Approach
Advanced Program on the Treatment of Trauma
2022
TEAO Embodiment Training
Parts Work in Clinical Practice & Racial Trauma
Treating Trauma using DBT
De-escalation & Regulation Techniques
CAMH Developmental Trauma and Resilience Program
Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional
2023
Deep Brain Reorienting (L1) Shock Trauma Processing
Cognitive - Behavioural Conjoint Therapy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Certified as a Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)
DBT Intensive Training for Healthcare providers
Treating Developmental Trauma - ECHO Psychotherapy Program
2024
Deep Brain Reorienting (L2) Attachment Shock and Wounding
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) - ECHO Psychotherapy Program
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD
Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - ECHO Ontario Program
Deep Brain Reorienting (L3) Dissociative and Complex Trauma Disorders
2025
Certificate Program in Somatic Embodiment & Regulation Strategies
Trans & Gender Diverse Healthcare - ECHO Ontario Program
DBR Clinical Consultations for Certification
2026
A Focus On Gender-Based Violence (Immigrant, Refugee And Indigenous Peoples)
Traffic Jam - Conference on Human Trafficking in Canada
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