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Kathryn McInroy Virtual Counselling Alberta

Kathryn McInroy (she/her)
M.Ed., RCC, CT, RP, ADHD-CCSP
Owner & Clinical Director

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Kathryn provides phone and online counselling to clients across British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario. She works with individuals and couples.

Kathryn believes that counselling is a collaborative process between the client and their counsellor and treats the relationship as a partnership. She uses a strengths-based and solution-focused approach to help her clients move toward their goals. She helps clients learn and practice techniques to change unhelpful thought patterns, regulate their emotions, and cope more effectively with challenges. Kathryn also assists clients in improving their communication, boundary-setting, and conflict-resolution skills.

She enjoys working with clients on stress management, personal growth, identity exploration, goal setting, relationships, and life transitions. She has a special interest in supporting clients who are feeling ambivalent or uncertain about their relationship, and those who are going through a separation or divorce.

Kathryn supports clients to understand and manage symptoms of ADHD (diagnosed or undiagnosed), with a focus on amplifying strengths and managing the challenges that ADHD brings to the client’s daily functioning, relationships, work, schooling, and more. With an abundance of experience in this area, Kathryn helps clients develop ADHD-adapted skills and strategies to support them to achieve their goals.

She has extensive experience working with low-conflict couples who are seeking to strengthen their connection to one another, work through specific challenges they are facing, and/or build skills to support a strong, lasting relationship. Kathryn enjoys working with couples where one or both partners have ADHD.

As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, Kathryn offers individuals and couples a space to talk freely about sex, sexuality, intimacy and pleasure. Her primary areas of focus for sex therapy are women and vulva-owners’ genito-pelvic pain disorders (including dyspareunia, vulvodynia and vaginismus), resolution of desire, arousal and pleasure discrepancies and/or difficulties, post-termination/post-abortion sexual and relationship challenges, and sexual and pleasure equity. She has a special interest in supporting women through the menopausal transition, and brings an understanding of perimenopause to her work with mid-life women. Additionally, she offers a supportive space for individuals and couples to explore their interest in or experiences with ethical/consensual non-monogamy (ENM/CNM).

Her approach to counselling therapy uses a blend of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, emotionally focused therapy, and the Gottman Method approach to relationship counselling. She practices from an anti-oppressive and trauma-informed lens and welcomes clients of all races, sexual orientations, and gender identities/expressions.

Kathryn has over 15 years of counselling experience. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC (BC Association of Clinical Counsellors), a Registered Psychotherapist with the CRPO (College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario), and a Counselling Therapist with ACTA (Association of Counselling Therapy of Alberta). She has a Master of Education degree from Thompson Rivers University, with additional post-graduation coursework in group and couples counselling from Yorkville University.

Kathryn has additional clinical training for working with couples, including the Gottman Method Levels 1 & 2 and Treating Affairs & Trauma. Kathryn is an AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counsellors & Therapists) Certified Sex Therapist, and has over 200 hours of sex therapy training to draw from in her work with clients. She also has extensive additional training for and experience in supporting clients with ADHD, and holds the ADHD - Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) designation to showcase her specialized training in this area.

Kathryn also offers clinical consultation for therapists. If you are a professional looking for clinical support, please head over to our Clinical Consultation for Therapists page.

  • Kathryn engages in ongoing continuing education and training, with an emphasis on expanding her skills and knowledge in her primary areas of practice.

    ADHD

    • Advanced ADHD Certification Program: Strategies to Customize Treatment for Every Client (PESI)

      • ADHD Assessment for Adults: Overcome Treatment Obstacles, Identify Co-Morbidities & Resolve Diagnostic Dilemmas

      • ADHD and Couples Therapy: Foster Trust, Follow-Through & More

      • ADHD and Emotional Regulation: Updated Diagnostic Considerations, Assessment & Skill Building

      • ADHD at Work: Strategies to Help Clients Survive & Thrive in Their Careers

      • ADHD in the Family: Interventions for Parents at Home & in the Classroom

      • ADHD in Diverse Populations: Strategies to Treat Adults, Kids & Collaborate with Care Teams

      • ADHD Medication & Non-Medication Interventions: Maximize Brain Function & Create Health Habits

      • Essential Tools & Skills for Women with ADHD: Specialized Assessment & Comprehensive Treatment Strategies

      • Mindfulness Strategies for ADHD: Integrate Neuroscience, Awareness Practices & Self-Compassion into Treatment

      • Neurology Drives Psychology in ADHD Clients: Promoting Resilience & Self-Regulation

      • Time Management & Executive Functioning Strategies for Adults with ADHD

    • ADHD Clinical Services Provider Certification Program: Strengths-based Interventions to Thrive with ADHD from Childhood to Adulthood (PESI)

      • ADHD in Children and Adolescents: Advances in Diagnosis, Treatment and Management

      • ADHD, Relationships, and Sex: Strategies to Overcome the Over/Under-Functioner Dynamic

      • Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Skills to Manage ADHD in Adults

      • CBT Strategies for Kids and Adolescents: Supporting Students with ADHD and Anxiety

      • Extended adolescence: Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling to Meet the Demands of Adulthood

      • Identifying and Treating Students with ADHD and Learning Disabilities

      • Rethinking ADHD: A New Treatment Approach

      • Psychopharmacology: Essential Updates for Mental Health Professionals

    • Females, Hormones and ADHD (Centre for ADHD Awareness, Canada)

    • Understanding the ADHD Mind and Navigating an Adult ADHD Relationship When You Don’t Have ADHD (Centre for ADHD Awareness, Canada)

    Couples, Relationships & Sex Therapy

    • Sex Therapist Certification (150 Hour) Program (Modern Sex Therapy Institutes)

      • Addressing Common Sexual Concerns

      • Addressing Sexual Issues in EFT Couples Therapy

      • Beyond the Buzzwords: Adopting a Liberatory Practice

      • Biopsychosocial Approach to Pelvic Floor and Sexual Dysfunction

      • Come as You Are: Pleasure is the Measure

      • Developmental Sexuality

      • Diagnosis and Treatment of Female Sexual Dysfunction

      • Diagnosis and Treatment of Male Sexual Dysfunction

      • Finding the Sex You Lost: Transforming Limiting Beliefs

      • History of Sex Research

      • How to Do Mindful Sex: Understanding Mindfulness and How to Use it in Treating Sexual Dysfunction

      • Integrating Sexual Interventions into Couples Therapy

      • Intimacy Skills: Teaching Couples How to Communicate

      • Overview of Sexual Response and Taking a Sexual History

      • Pornography, Purity and Pathology

      • Qualitative Research: Overview of Current Methods

      • Reclaiming Pleasure: Helping Clients Move Past Sexual Trauma

      • Sex Therapies that Harm, Masturbation, and New Diagnoses

      • Sex Therapy Protocols

      • Sex, Love, and the Brain: Exploring Arousal and Affect Regulation

      • Sexual Anatomy and Physiology

      • Sexuality Leadership

      • Shame and the Sexual Life Course

      • Sociocultural Factors in Sexual Values

      • Substance Abuse and Sexuality

      • Supervision, Consultation, Collaboration, and Referral

      • Transition Anxiety: Play, Pleasure, and Possibility

      • Treating the Two Most Common Female Sexual Complaints: Orgasm Issues and Diminished Desire

      • Understanding and Treating Sexual/Genital Pain

    • Clash of the Sex Drives: Helping Couples Resolve Mismatched Desire (The Buehler Institute)

    • Couples & Family Systems (Yorkville University)

    • Emotionally Focused Therapy: Attachment-Based Interventions for Couples in Crisis (PESI)

    • Ethical Considerations in Diagnosing Female Sexual Problems (Bookshelf to Couch)

    • Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 2 (Gottman Institute)

    • Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 1 (Gottman Institute)

    • Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy (PESI)

    • Introduction to Erectile Dysfunction (Westland Academy of Clinical Sex Therapy)

    • Let’s Talk About Sex: Using the PLISSIT-R Model (The Buehler Institute)

    • Mindful Sex: How it Can Help Your Clients Have Better Sex (Modern Sex Therapy Institutes)

    • Navigating the Evolution of Female Desire (Modern Sex Therapy Institutes)

    • Reframing the Fear of Regret and Detransition (Modern Sex Therapy Institutes)

    • Sensate Focus (Sexual Health Solutions)

    • Sex & Gender 101 (Westland Academy of Clinical Sex Therapy)

    • Sexual and Gender Diversity Training (Government of Alberta)

    • Sex Therapy Online, Part 1 & 2 (Buehler Institute)

    • Sexual Attitude Reassessment (Modern Sex Therapy Institutes)

    • Sexual Pain: What Every Sex Therapist Needs to Know (Sexual Health Solutions)

    • Treating Affairs and Trauma (Gottman Institute)

    • What’s New With Sex? Expanding and Exploring the Therapeutic Comfort Zone (PESI)

    Trauma

    • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Intensive Certification Training Program (PESI)

      • Behavioural Analysis, Change, and DBT Therapy

      • Consultation, Safety and DBT

      • Developing the Foundation for DBT

      • DBT Treatment Framework & Structure

      • Skills Training 1

      • Skills Training 2

    • Trauma Treatment Certification Program: Comprehensive Strategies and Customizable Interventions for Enhanced Recovery (PESI)

      • Trauma Impact: Summary of Research

      • Assessment and Diagnosis of Trauma

      • Addressing Trauma’s Impact on Neurobiology

      • Evidence-based Treatment: Practical Applications

      • Addressing Critical Domains in Trauma Treatment

    Supervision & Clinical Consultation

    • Clinical Supervision Certificate Course (PESI)

      • Clinical Supervision Toolkit

      • Culturally Responsive Supervision

      • Trauma Informed Supervision

    • Clinical Practicum Supervisor Training (Yorkville University)

    • Clinical Supervision (College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario)

    • Clinical Supervision Competencies (Association of Counselling Therapists of Alberta)

    • Documentation in Clinical Supervision (Association of Counselling Therapists of Alberta)

    • Supervisor of Supervision (SoS) Orientation (BC Association of Clinical Counsellors)

    Other

    • Addiction Studies Extension Certificate (Mount Royal University)

    • Brain Story Certification (Alberta Family Wellness Initiative)

    • Children’s Mental Health Extension Certificate (Mount Royal University)

    • Group Counselling (Yorkville University)

    • Indigenous Series – Cultural Responsiveness Training (Government of Alberta)

    • Protecting Patients from Sexual Abuse & Misconduct (Association of Counselling Therapists of Alberta)

    • Victims Services Advocate Training (Government of Alberta)

Rate

Individuals
$165 per 50 minute session
$265 per 80 minute session

Couples
$195 per 50 minute session
$310 per 80 minute session

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