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Meet Katharina

Registered Clinical Counsellor

(Katharina's pronouns are: she/her)

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KATHARINA IS ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS

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Katharina is passionate about supporting clients who are navigating the impacts of trauma, including perpetual overwhelm, anxiety, depression, dissociation, shame, self criticism, perfectionism, difficulty setting boundaries, people pleasing, feeling numb or disconnected, and patterns in relationships rooted in early attachment wounds.

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Her approach is nervous system informed, somatically attuned, and deeply relational, drawing on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and attachment theory. Rather than working to get rid of the responses that once kept a person safe, she meets them with curiosity, exploring how they came to be and whether they still serve.

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Underneath all of it is a person's relationship with themselves. Through body based awareness, parts work, and compassionate presence, Katharina supports clients in coming back into contact with their own experience, and in finding a felt sense of inner safety, agency, and wholeness that belongs to them rather than depending on anyone else.

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Before entering the counselling field, Katharina spent over a decade teaching yoga and mindfulness as a Registered Yoga Teacher. Her passion and experience in embodied healing led her to clinical work at the Hope Centre’s Psychiatric Outpatient Unit in North Vancouver, where she supported adults living with complex mental health challenges, trauma, and co-occurring conditions. During her time there, she also developed and facilitated trauma-informed programs in somatic movement, yoga, and mindfulness.

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Education & Training: ​

  • Registered Clinical Counsellor with BC Association of Clinical Counsellors ( #23170)

  • Masters in Counselling Psychology, City University, Vancouver B.C.

  • Internship and Clinical Supervision with Shivani Wells-Shaw

  • BA in Communications and Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C. & Hong Kong University

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (level 1), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute with Darlene Cohn

  • EMDR-A: Part 1, The Advanced Approach and Protocol to Working with Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders with Jasmine Alexander, PsyD (cand) (in progress)

  • Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (Level 1) with Janina Fisher, PhD (in progress)

  • From Narrative to Nervous System: Sensorimotor Sequencing to Process Shock Trauma with Pat Ogden, Sensorimotor Institute

  • 6-Month Online Circle Studies Internal Family System, Internal Family Systems Institute

  • Adapting Internal Family Systems (IFS) for Clients with Dissociative Disorders with Kathy Steele

  • 5-Day Certification in Narrative Therapy, Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Langara College with Tom Heah

  • ​San’yas: Indigenous Cultural Safety Training, Provincial Health Services Authority Indigenous Health Program, British Columbia, Canada (2022).

  • Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Outreach

  • 300hr and 500hr Yoga Teacher Training

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