Your body kept the score
long after you stopped talking

Somatic therapy is a body-aware approach to mental health. Alongside talking, it pays attention to what you're noticing in your body — tension, breath, posture, sensation — because trauma and chronic stress often live in the nervous system long after the mind has moved on. The work is gentle and always goes at your pace.

No. Katherine integrates somatic awareness alongside talk therapy, emotion-focused, and solution-focused approaches. What that actually looks like is tailored to you — some sessions might notice bodily sensation briefly, others are entirely conversation.

Yes. Katherine works with individuals and families. Her teaching background gives her real experience supporting youth in learning, expression, and emotional growth — she brings a thoughtful, compassionate approach to working with younger clients and their families.

Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shaped your patterns of connection and emotional regulation today. It's not about blaming the past — it's about understanding why certain situations feel so activating, and building new relational experiences in the therapy room that can extend outward.

Most extended healthcare plans cover therapy with a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), including Blue Cross, Canada Life, Manulife, Sun Life, and Veterans Affairs (VAC). Check your plan for “Registered Psychotherapist” coverage. We provide receipts for reimbursement.

Talk therapy works mostly through language and insight. Somatic therapy adds another channel — it treats the body as a source of information, not just the mind. Katherine might invite you to notice where a feeling lives physically, or how your breath changes as you describe something hard. For people who can explain their problem clearly but still feel stuck in it, that body-level awareness is often where the shift finally happens.

Because the patterns your nervous system runs were usually learned in your earliest relationships. Attachment-based therapy maps where those patterns came from, and somatic work helps you feel — and slowly change — how they show up in your body now. Pairing the two means you're not only understanding why a partner, parent, or friend keeps triggering the same reaction, but actually building a different, calmer response from the inside out.

Yes. Before training as a psychotherapist, Katherine worked as a teacher, so supporting young people through learning, expression, and emotional growth is familiar ground for her. She sees youth and adolescents individually and works with families together, using a gentle, paced approach that meets a young person where they are rather than rushing them. Families often start with a free 20-minute consultation to talk through fit.