Please note that for folks who are new to our therapy program or returning after 1 year away, we require an initial conversation.
Also, our group sessions are reserved for Avalon clients who are placed with a therapist. If you are currently not placed with a therapist and are interested in a group, please book an initial conversation, and we can chat about how we can better support you.
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Katie is currently a Foundations of Safety Therapist at the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre. She received her Masters in Transpersonal Psychology, and specializes in Art Therapy. Katie’s therapy practice is grounded in feminist principles, and incorporates mindfulness and creativity into sessions. Katie offers client-centred, relational counselling, and uses a strengths-based approach when working with individuals who face impacts related to traumatic experiences. Katie has completed specific training in both Transpersonal psychotherapy, as well as trauma-informed Art Therapy, and often incorporates psychoeducation in session to allow clients to understand the significance of trauma related symptoms, including guilt, shame, negative or low sense of self, isolation and loneliness. Katie allows her clients to draw on their own inner resources and skills, while offering tools and techniques to feel more empowered in everyday life. Believing in the innate ability to heal through relationship and self-discovery, Katie is willing to journey with each of her clients to identify needs, and navigate through the challenges of life with curiosity, understanding, acceptance and joy. Katie offers individual as well as group therapy.
Katie is currently a Foundations of Safety Therapist at the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre. She rec...
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