Kaitlyn Kraatz, RCC

Associate Counsellor
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Virtual Sessions

Kaitlyn is currently accepting new clients!

If you are interested in connecting with Kaitlyn, please contact kaitlyn.kraatz.counselling@gmail.com. For existing clients, self-book here.

About

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! I have a long history of supporting people who are treated like the problem, including QTIBIPoC+ folx, survivors of violence, disabled and/or neurodivergent folks, 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 make life a little bit easier. If this seems unlikely or impossible, I really welcome you to book a consult to learn more about how we might work together.

Professional and lived experience

I come to this work through a mix of identities and experiences. I embody queer, gender fluid, neurodivergent, straight-sized, white, working-turned-middle class identities. I’m a third and fifth generation settler of Mennonite and Welsh lineages. I hold lived experience in and near complex trauma, incarceration, substance use, intergenerational trauma, sexualized violence, institutional violence and betrayal, and complex grief.

What are sessions with Kaitlyn like?

You can expect a mix of storytelling, parts work (IFS), imagination, gaming metaphors, 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.

Kaitlyn’s Rates

15 min Phone Consultation
No Cost

Individual Counselling

50 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $150
Generous: $155+

75 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $210
Generous: $215+

Relationship Counselling

50 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $175
Generous: $185+

75 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $245
Generous: $250+

(Rates include GST)

Kaitlyn’s Availability

Location: Virtual Only

Days and Hours:

Tuesday 7:30am - 3:00pm (Virtual)
Wednesday 7:30am - 3:00pm (Virtual)
Friday 7:30am - 3:00pm (Virtual)

Approaches in Therapy

Trauma-Informed
Anti-Oppressive
Parts work
Somatic
Narrative
Harm-reduction
EMDR
Kink and polyamory affirming

Licensure & Degrees

Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC #11242390)

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.

Intensive Sex Therapy, University of Guelph (2023)
EMDR Comprehensive Basic Training, EMDR Consulting (2022)
Trauma Certificate (102 hours), Wilfrid Laurier University (2020-2022)
Restorative Justice Peacekeeper Training, Restorative Counselling (2021)
Tarot and the Healing Process, SheHeWeAwakening (2020)
Usui Reiki I and II (2020)

In my free time, I stay up-to-date on academic and popular literature about complex trauma, epigenetics, anti-oppressive practices, depression, family systems, body-centered healing practices, healing through spirit, institutional abolition, counselling for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks, identity-based trauma, substance use, parts work, and biomedical ethics.

Although I have 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.