I’m Katherine, a Registered Psychotherapist specializing in trauma recovery. 

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I started seeing clients under supervision in 2016 and joined the College of Registered Psychotherapists in 2018.

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​My background is in healthcare, mainly focused on the physical aspects of rehabilitative care - I have worked in hospitals and clinics in Canada, Scotland, and Haiti. Working in these different careers helped me to see the gaps in healthcare and figure out where my skills were most needed.

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In 2013, I started school for psychotherapy at the Ontario Psychotherapy and Counselling Program in Toronto. The program is a 5 year intensive training in psychodynamic therapy that includes 2 years of supervised clinical residency and covers a variety of approaches including: Relational therapy, Attachment theory, Developmental psychology, Intersubjective theory, as well as courses in Pharmacology and Neuroscience.

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For many years I engaged in my own trauma recovery process through therapy and an ongoing art practice. My thesis combined these two modalities and was focused on working with complex, unspoken trauma using expressive arts to support the integration of experiences that couldn't be expressed in words.

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​After graduating in 2018, I started practicing Psychotherapy full-time while also running expressive arts therapy groups at a residential treatment center for addictions and PTSD recovery.

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I occasionally offer group art expressive therapy programs and am an approved provider for the Victim Quick Response Program+(VQRP+)

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