By Peaceful Waters
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $170
- Couple Sessions $190
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
Payment Methods
ACH Bank transfer, Cash, Cheque, Mastercard, VisaInsurance
- Client seeks reimbursement from insurance provider
- First Nations Health Authority
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by Province of Ontario / 830075 Karen Walker
- In Practice for 25 years
- Attended Wilfrid Laurier University, Master of Social Work, Graduated 2002
- Certificate from EMDR International Association Certified Therapist 2025
Registered Social Worker: Karen Walker
Education and Years In Practice
Additional Credentials
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Trauma and PTSD
- Anxiety
- Family Conflict
Expertise
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Attachment Wounds
- Behavioural Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Career Guidance
- Child
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Developmental Disorders
- Dissociative Disorders (DID)
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating Disorders
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Emotional Disturbance
- Gambling
- Geriatric and Seniors
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infidelity
- Internet Addiction
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Obesity
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sex Therapy
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Teen Violence
- Testing and Evaluation
- Thinking Disorders
- Video Game Addiction
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
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Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Christian Counselling
- Clinical Supervision and Qualified Supervisors
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Eclectic
- EMDR
- Emotionally Focused
- Experiential Therapy
- Exposure Response Prevention (ERP)
- Expressive Arts
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Gottman Method
- Integrative
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Interpersonal
- Intervention
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multicultural
- Music Therapy
- Narrative
- Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT)
- Person-Centered
- Play Therapy
- Please check our website for focused group options
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Psychological Testing and Evaluation
- Rational Emotive Behaviour (REBT)
- Reality Therapy
- Relational
- Sandplay
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic
- Strength-Based
- Structural Family Therapy
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Mediation/ Parenting Coordination
Our mediation services involve developing a final resolution plan that honours both parties. We provide mediation for individuals, families, business, and corporate relationships. Child-centered mediation between parents considers the best interests of the children while maintaining a strong relationship with each parent, irrespective of who has legal or physical custody. Our Parenting Coordination experts assist separated parents in further developing their co-parenting skills and following their established parenting agreement in a way that supports the best interests of the children.
Session Cost
Location
60 Baffin Place
Unit 4
Waterloo, ON N2V
Emotional Regulation for Kids (Emoticon)
Does your child have BIG emotions? Our Emoticon workshop, for children ages 8-10, teaches kids how to understand and process their feelings and emotions healthfully. This 7 week workshop equips and empowers children with emotional regulation tools that they can use for a lifetime! Participants learn through interactive games and hands-on activities in a supportive environment with other kids. Children will learn how to: Identify and process feelings in helpful ways, practice strategies to regulate emotions and develop practical tools to cope with extreme emotions, all while having fun and building relationships.
Expertise
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Location
By Peaceful Waters main office
60 Baffin Place
Unit 4
Waterloo, ON N2V
Adult Online DBT Skills Group
Stress is part of life, but intense emotions, blow-ups and strained relationships don’t have to be! Join other like-minded participants as you learn practical strategies proven to help you manage stress, regulate your emotions, calm racing thoughts, and improve your relationships. DBT offers evidenced-based results for people experiencing depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder (BPD), post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), self harm, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and substance abuse. Access this valuable training at a group rate - a 70% savings over individual sessions. The course is ONLINE and begins February 2, 2026.
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Group Meets
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ONLINE
Waterloo, ON N2V
Location
Additional Location
By Peaceful Waters Hamilton
Hamilton, ON L8L
(226) 910-0979