Our Team

Katie offers phone and online counselling to clients across British Columbia. She offers individual counselling (18+) and relationship/couples therapy.

Katie approaches therapy with sensitivity and compassion, providing a non-judgmental space for you to share your story, learn more about yourself, and explore what’s going on beneath the surface. She can help you understand where you’re getting stuck and find ways to move towards change, healing and growth.

Her approach places emphasis on identifying, exploring and understanding your emotions – leading to greater emotional awareness, self-understanding, and an increased ability to manage anxiety, stress and whatever comes your way in life. Katie integrates attachment science into her practice. Exploring attachment patterns and dynamics can help you gain insight into how your early life experiences impact you, and help you foster a healthier connection with yourself and those around you.

Katie enjoys working with clients of all genders and sexual orientations, body sizes, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds. She strives for her counselling practice to be anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and inclusive.

Individual Counselling

Katie works with adults who are looking to better understand themselves, their emotions, and their relationships. Many of her clients come to therapy feeling stuck in familiar patterns, struggling with difficult relationships, navigating a significant change in life circumstances, or wanting to build a stronger sense of self.

Her work is grounded in the belief that greater self-awareness can lead to meaningful change. Together, you can explore the experiences, emotions, and relationship patterns that may be shaping your current challenges, while developing new ways of responding to yourself and others with greater understanding and compassion.

Katie enjoys working with individuals who want to:

• Better understand and navigate relationship or family challenges

• Develop greater emotional awareness and emotion regulation skills

• Explore attachment patterns and how they show up in their lives and relationships

• Build self-esteem, confidence, and a stronger sense of self

• Heal from the impact of growing up with emotionally immature parents

• Improve communication and express their needs more effectively

• Explore LGBTQ+ identities in a supportive and affirming space

• Navigate life transitions, including the transition to parenthood

• Process grief, loss, and significant life changes

Relationship and Couples Therapy

Katie is passionate about helping people improve their relationships and has seen firsthand the positive impact that healthy, loving, secure, and supportive connections can have on our lives. Relationship therapy can include romantic relationships, friendships, or family relationships.

She supports clients using evidence-based counselling approaches that emphasize enhancing emotional connection, improving communication, working through conflict, and increasing/restoring respect in relationships. She also helps build or restore affection and intimacy between partners. Katie is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Levels 1 & 2), and uses both of these approaches in relationship and couples therapy.

Katie understands the vulnerability that often comes with showing up to a couples counselling session for the first time. She works to offer a space that allows everyone to feel safe to share, and to feel heard, respected and involved in the process.

Katie enjoys working with couples who want to:

• Improve connection and communication

• Move through conflict in ways that feel productive rather than painful

• Strengthen emotional and physical intimacy

• Foster greater trust, appreciation, and respect

• Repair and reconnect after breaches of trust

• Navigate difficult conversations with greater understanding and care

• Stay connected through life transitions and changing family dynamics

• Strengthen their relationship as they prepare for parenthood or welcome a new baby

Transition to Parenthood Support (Gottman’s Bringing Baby Home Course)

Becoming a parent can be one of life's most meaningful transitions. It can also bring new challenges to your relationship as you adjust to changing roles, responsibilities, routines, and expectations. Many couples find themselves wondering how they'll stay connected while navigating the demands of growing a family.

Katie is certified to offer the Gottman Institute's highly acclaimed parent preparation course, Bringing Baby Home, through a series of couples counselling sessions. Whether you're thinking about starting a family, expecting a baby, or already parenting together, this program is designed to help you strengthen your relationship during the transition to parenthood.

Through guided conversations, practical exercises, and evidence-based relationship tools, couples can learn to:

• Strengthen friendship, connection, and emotional closeness

• Improve communication and navigate conflict more effectively

• Maintain feelings of appreciation, respect, and teamwork

• Better understand and support one another's needs

• Create a strong foundation for their growing family

The Bringing Baby Home program is welcoming to couples and relationships of all genders and sexual orientations. The program typically involves 6–10 hours of counselling, delivered through a series of 50- or 80-minute sessions.

Counselling Approach

Katie’s approach to counselling therapy blends Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and psychodynamic therapy. She is committed to offering trauma-informed, evidence-based, person-centered, and relationally focused support through an anti-oppressive lens.

About Katie

Katie holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Waterloo. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC) and a Registered Social Worker with the BC College of Social Workers (BCCSW). She has completed additional training to support her work with couples, including The Gottman Institute’s Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Levels 1 & 2) and Bringing Baby Home for Parents educator training.