Services
I offer professional, compassionate and confidential psychotherapy for adults and teens 16 years and older, who are coping with life transitions, anxiety, depression, PTSD, complex trauma and more.
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Individual Counselling/ Psychotherapy
In-person and virtual options available.
I offer 60-minute individual counselling sessions for adults and teens aged 16 and over. Counselling can be short-term with specific outcomes in mind — usually lasting between 3 and 7 sessions — or, it can also be longer-term, exploring topics in further depth including working through past trauma.
In individual counseling, I use an integrative approach drawing on Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) - Indvidual Counselling/ Psychotherapy
In-person and virtual options available.
For those looking for Internal Family Systems therapy, I am trained to practice in this modality (IFS level 2). IFS has been around for several decades but is presently gaining recognition internationally as a powerful and effective, yet non-pathologizing way to do both general therapeutic work as well as trauma therapy. To learn more about IFS, visit the IFS Institute.
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Workshops/Team-Building
I offer dynamic and engaging workshops for groups and organizations. Topics include: team-building, communication skills, selfcare & mindfulness, as well as several mental health related subjects. I love facilitating groups and can develop specifically tailored programming to meet your organization’s needs.
Kaelin is presently not accepting new clients and her waitlist, for the time being, is also closed.
Working with Indigenous People
I am of Irish/Scottish ancestry, and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario – the un-ceded and un-surrendered Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. I have lived in Whitehorse, Yukon for 16 years on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta'an Kwäch'än Council.
I want to say personally that I recognize the complexity of myself – a settler – offering therapeutic services to people of Indigenous ancestry. I believe that working with an Indigenous counsellor may be more aligned, more helpful and ultimately more healing for many Indigenous people and would encourage seeking Indigenous counselling services if that is your preference. If though, you choose to work with me, I aim to always bring cultural humility to my practice. I acknowledge my privilege; I aim to be open; collaborative; self-reflexive and to be in a continual practice of examining my own blind-spots and to commit to reconciliation.
I am privileged to have worked therapeutically with many Indigenous people over the past ten years. I am deeply aware of the traumatic impacts from colonization including Canada’s genocidal residential school system and its resulting intergenerational trauma, as well as on-going systemic oppression. I have also witnessed powerful resiliency and healing and look forward to continuing this meaningful therapeutic work.
I am a mental health provider with the Non-Insured Health Benefits Program (NIHB) and the Indian Residential School - Resolution Health Support Program (IRS RHSP) through Indigenous Services Canada. Some people may be eligible to receive counselling services funded through these program.
Click here to learn more about eligibility for NIHB.
Click here to learn more about eligibility for IRS RHSP.
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