Kaitlyn (they, them, theirs)- Registered Clinical Counsellor, Canadian Certified Counsellor
To connect with Kaitlyn email kaitlyn.kraatz.counselling@gmail.com
Or
To connect with Kaitlyn email kaitlyn.kraatz.counselling@gmail.com
Or
Availability
Tuesdays 12:00 pm-4:00 pm (Online)
Wednesdays 8:00 am-4:00 pm (Online)
Fridays 10:00 am-4:00 pm (Online)
Saturdays 9300 am-4:45 pm (Online)
I’m drawn to support people who feel like they don’t belong. If you have learned to hate parts of yourself, have had to cut off access to joy and rest in order to survive, or have taken on wounds of exclusion, we might be an excellent fit. I welcome bookings for both individual and relationship work.
My approach to counselling is personalized and adaptive. If something doesn’t work for you, I assume the approach needs to change, not you! You can expect a mix of storytelling, parts work (IFS), imagination, body-based practices (somatic), adapted EMDR, and laughter, with each session shaped specifically for you. I’m here to help you build unique, personalized strategies for healing; my counselling has been described as collaborative, warm, and creative.
I come to this work through a mix of identities and experiences. I embody queer, neurodivergent, straight-sized, working-turned-middle class white settler identities. I hold lived experience in and near trauma, incarceration, substance use, intergenerational trauma, sexualized violence, institutional violence and betrayal, and complex grief. Professionally, I have a long history of supporting people who are treated like the problem, including QTIBIPoC+ folx, survivors of violence, and people who have experienced institutional harm.
As a counsellor, my goal is to help you find a peaceful sense of home inside yourself. I’d like to help you end patterns of cutting yourself small. I’d like to help you recognize and know yourself more fully. I’d like to help you learn how to be yourself in entirely new ways. If these goals seem unlikely or impossible, I really welcome you to book a consult to learn more about how we could connect.
Counselling Approaches:
Selected Professional Training
I studied discourse analysis, identity construction, and meaning-making in a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree. As my interest in healing grew, I mixed formal and informal training in counselling, social work, and ethics. I completed my Master of Arts in Counselling Psychotherapy in 2022.
Since 2018, I have taken courses in social justice, professional ethics, trauma-centered psychotherapy, EMDR, secondary compassion fatigue, dream analysis, LGBTQ2S+ counselling, Tarot as a conceptualization of the healing process, harm reduction, intersectional conceptualizations of anti-Black racism and settler colonial violence, and Usui reiki (levels I and II). I completed my trauma certificate through Wilfrid Laurier University in 2022.
In my free time, I stay up-to-date on academic and popular literature about trauma, epigenetics, anti-oppressive practices, depression, family systems, body-centered healing practices, healing through spirit, substance use, parts work, biomedical ethics, and Canadian postsecondary systems.
Although I have a lot of academic training in these areas, I affirm lived experience as valuable knowledge. I take a non-expert stance in my work with people. No book, article, or opinion is more important than what you know about your experiences.
Kaitlyn’s Rates
15 min Phone Consultation: No Cost
Individual Counselling:
50 minute sessions: standard $135, sliding scale currently full
75 minute sessions: standard $185, sliding scale currently full
Relationship Counselling:
50 minute sessions: standard $175, sliding scale currently full
75 minute sessions: standard $225, sliding scale currently full
Kaitlyn can work with folks utilizing First Nations Health Authority funding and Autism Funding Unit.
Email Kaitlyn to be added to their waitlist kaitlyn.kraatz.counselling@gmail.com
Tuesdays 12:00 pm-4:00 pm (Online)
Wednesdays 8:00 am-4:00 pm (Online)
Fridays 10:00 am-4:00 pm (Online)
Saturdays 9300 am-4:45 pm (Online)
I’m drawn to support people who feel like they don’t belong. If you have learned to hate parts of yourself, have had to cut off access to joy and rest in order to survive, or have taken on wounds of exclusion, we might be an excellent fit. I welcome bookings for both individual and relationship work.
My approach to counselling is personalized and adaptive. If something doesn’t work for you, I assume the approach needs to change, not you! You can expect a mix of storytelling, parts work (IFS), imagination, body-based practices (somatic), adapted EMDR, and laughter, with each session shaped specifically for you. I’m here to help you build unique, personalized strategies for healing; my counselling has been described as collaborative, warm, and creative.
I come to this work through a mix of identities and experiences. I embody queer, neurodivergent, straight-sized, working-turned-middle class white settler identities. I hold lived experience in and near trauma, incarceration, substance use, intergenerational trauma, sexualized violence, institutional violence and betrayal, and complex grief. Professionally, I have a long history of supporting people who are treated like the problem, including QTIBIPoC+ folx, survivors of violence, and people who have experienced institutional harm.
As a counsellor, my goal is to help you find a peaceful sense of home inside yourself. I’d like to help you end patterns of cutting yourself small. I’d like to help you recognize and know yourself more fully. I’d like to help you learn how to be yourself in entirely new ways. If these goals seem unlikely or impossible, I really welcome you to book a consult to learn more about how we could connect.
Counselling Approaches:
- Trauma-Informed
- Anti-Oppressive
- Parts work
- Somatic
- Narrative
- Mindfulness
- Harm-reduction
- EMDR
Selected Professional Training
I studied discourse analysis, identity construction, and meaning-making in a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree. As my interest in healing grew, I mixed formal and informal training in counselling, social work, and ethics. I completed my Master of Arts in Counselling Psychotherapy in 2022.
Since 2018, I have taken courses in social justice, professional ethics, trauma-centered psychotherapy, EMDR, secondary compassion fatigue, dream analysis, LGBTQ2S+ counselling, Tarot as a conceptualization of the healing process, harm reduction, intersectional conceptualizations of anti-Black racism and settler colonial violence, and Usui reiki (levels I and II). I completed my trauma certificate through Wilfrid Laurier University in 2022.
In my free time, I stay up-to-date on academic and popular literature about trauma, epigenetics, anti-oppressive practices, depression, family systems, body-centered healing practices, healing through spirit, substance use, parts work, biomedical ethics, and Canadian postsecondary systems.
Although I have a lot of academic training in these areas, I affirm lived experience as valuable knowledge. I take a non-expert stance in my work with people. No book, article, or opinion is more important than what you know about your experiences.
Kaitlyn’s Rates
15 min Phone Consultation: No Cost
Individual Counselling:
50 minute sessions: standard $135, sliding scale currently full
75 minute sessions: standard $185, sliding scale currently full
Relationship Counselling:
50 minute sessions: standard $175, sliding scale currently full
75 minute sessions: standard $225, sliding scale currently full
Kaitlyn can work with folks utilizing First Nations Health Authority funding and Autism Funding Unit.
Email Kaitlyn to be added to their waitlist kaitlyn.kraatz.counselling@gmail.com