Katy works with adults who seek a more meaningful and satisfying life. She offers a compassionate and reflective space to help people connect to their inner truth, heal and grow. Katy helps clients process their concerns and find clarity during transitions such as immigration, career change, burnout, loss of identity, navigating difficult relationships, uncertainty about the future, becoming a parent or finding new meaning after children are grown.
Katy Kitainik Student Therapist
Approach to Counselling
Katy believes you are the expert of your life. Her role is to help you make sense of your experiences, recognize your strengths and move forward with greater resilience and purpose.
She has a deep appreciation for different cultures and compassion toward those whose lives have been shaped by conflict, migration, or cultural transition. Katy approaches every client with curiosity and respect, creating a space where you can safely explore difficult emotions.
Her approach is trauma informed and culturally sensitive. She draws from narrative, existential, attachment-based, solution focused and cognitive-behavioural therapies to help you understand patterns, discover new perspectives, and fulfill your potential.
Katy has worked with adults navigating life transitions, newcomers adjusting to life in Canada, parents raising children across cultures, people experiencing relationship strain or burnout, young or mature clients questioning their career direction, neurodiverse youth and adults figuring how to thrive in the world not tailored to their needs.
Education and Experience
Katy is a practicum student who has completed her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and provides counselling under the supervision of an experienced clinical supervisor.
She also holds a Master of Arts in Linguistics and is a certified EQ-i 2.0® Emotional Intelligence Assessment Practitioner and is trained in ASIST. She brings more than 20 years of experience in the helping professions as youth and adult educator and career coach.
Having lived in several countries, Katy understands many of the complexities of immigration, identity, and belonging. Fluent in English, Russian, and Hebrew, she enjoys supporting people from diverse cultural backgrounds as they navigate life transitions and build fulfilling lives grounded in their own values.
