Kathryn Maier

My work has focused on therapy with children and youth of all ages, including those living in care settings. Some roles I have specialized in are as a school counsellor (7 years), school teacher (5 years), autism behavioral therapist for preschoolers, foster parent, and a community child and youth care worker providing individual and group counselling for kids, teens, parents, and families.

In addition to children and adolescents, I have expertise in doing therapy with adults of all ages and all life stages. I especially enjoy counselling teachers and educational assistants as I understand the unique challenges these individuals face in their roles.

Building confidence by emphasizing strengths and developing personalized action plans leads to growth at school, home, work, and in the community. Using an integrative approach, I offer the option to choose from use of mixed arts media, play therapy, music, narrative therapy, trauma-focused CBT, and solution-focused brief therapy, to explore healing and new directions. I also provide psychoeducational assessments, including assessments for ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

I am gentle, patient, and navigate with care, concerns with school-age and post-secondary learning challenges, ADHD, autism, social skill development, interpersonal conflict, self-esteem, healing from trauma, gender dysphoria, anxiety, grieving and loss, perfectionism, depression and suicidal ideation.

A QUESTION:

What do you do to keep your outlook optimistic?

Keeping an optimistic outlook is not always easy for me, but I try to remember that there might be a better day tomorrow or a better week next week, so I will need to ride it out. I find it helps to go to a friend or family member and let them know when I’m getting discouraged, and they always have some kind words to say. When I can get some music into my ears, or have some artwork to do, it lifts my heart.