Marriage Counselling Therapists in Kitchener, ON
Navigating life’s challenges—especially as an immigrant, a person of colour, an Indigenous person, an LGBTQIA2S+ individual, or simply someone adjusting to a new life, new culture or new circumstances—can feel isolating. You don’t have to go through it alone. I provide a warm, compassionate space where you can explore your experiences, heal from past struggles, and build a future that aligns with your values and goals.
Navigating life’s challenges—especially as an immigrant, a person of colour, an Indigenous person, an LGBTQIA2S+ individual, or simply someone adjusting to a new life, new culture or new circumstances—can feel isolating. You don’t have to go through it alone. I provide a warm, compassionate space where you can explore your experiences, heal from past struggles, and build a future that aligns with your values and goals.
You might be feeling emotionally overwhelmed, stuck in your head, or carrying stress that no one really sees. Maybe you’re balancing family or cultural expectations, relationship strain, ADHD, or big life changes while trying to keep it together. You may be tired of explaining yourself or feeling misunderstood. You’re looking for a space where you can slow down, feel understood, and learn how to cope in ways that actually fit your life.
You might be feeling emotionally overwhelmed, stuck in your head, or carrying stress that no one really sees. Maybe you’re balancing family or cultural expectations, relationship strain, ADHD, or big life changes while trying to keep it together. You may be tired of explaining yourself or feeling misunderstood. You’re looking for a space where you can slow down, feel understood, and learn how to cope in ways that actually fit your life.
Vicki Hartman
Registered Social Worker, MA, RSW
1 Endorsed
Kitchener, ON N2H
Waitlist for new clients
Whether you, or a loved one, are experiencing anxiety, depression, self-harm, grief, abuse, family or marital conflict, LGBTQIA+ issues or trauma (historical or current), I will work with you to develop the tools and insights needed to foster long-term change, personal growth, and improve relationships.
Taking a compassionate and collaborative approach, I always embrace your unique experiences and needs to ensure an empowering and supportive therapeutic journey. Having witnessed the transformative experience therapy can bring to children, youth and families, my goal is to create a safe and comfortable space where you can be your authentic self.
Whether you, or a loved one, are experiencing anxiety, depression, self-harm, grief, abuse, family or marital conflict, LGBTQIA+ issues or trauma (historical or current), I will work with you to develop the tools and insights needed to foster long-term change, personal growth, and improve relationships.
Taking a compassionate and collaborative approach, I always embrace your unique experiences and needs to ensure an empowering and supportive therapeutic journey. Having witnessed the transformative experience therapy can bring to children, youth and families, my goal is to create a safe and comfortable space where you can be your authentic self.
Accepting NEW patients for low-cost therapy individual and couples therapy in English and Mandarin.
Previous working experience in different sectors helps me to understand people's stress in the career and self-development. Also, I have spent the last few years working as a counsellor in China, assisting clients coping with depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, and chronic diseases, helping them navigate both the physical and emotional impact of illnesses.
Accepting NEW patients for low-cost therapy individual and couples therapy in English and Mandarin.
Previous working experience in different sectors helps me to understand people's stress in the career and self-development. Also, I have spent the last few years working as a counsellor in China, assisting clients coping with depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, and chronic diseases, helping them navigate both the physical and emotional impact of illnesses.
I also have Gottman level 1 certification for couples counselling
Are you feeling stuck? Overwhelmed by the day to day stressors? Struggling with communication in your relationships? Want to know how to show up authentically yourself? Do you feel anxiety or depression is holding you back? If so, then look no further. My aim is to form a collaborative, and therapeutic relationship with my clients, to provide a safe space away from everyday pressures, in which you can explore and gain a better understanding of yourself. Ultimately, I endeavour to provide you with an experience that is therapeutic, culturally responsive that empowers you to enhance your life and live it more fully.
I also have Gottman level 1 certification for couples counselling
Are you feeling stuck? Overwhelmed by the day to day stressors? Struggling with communication in your relationships? Want to know how to show up authentically yourself? Do you feel anxiety or depression is holding you back? If so, then look no further. My aim is to form a collaborative, and therapeutic relationship with my clients, to provide a safe space away from everyday pressures, in which you can explore and gain a better understanding of yourself. Ultimately, I endeavour to provide you with an experience that is therapeutic, culturally responsive that empowers you to enhance your life and live it more fully.
Life is messy and not always easy to navigate. It is easy to beat ourselves up, focus on all of the "shoulda-woulda-coulda's", but it is difficult to see the frame when you are part of the picture. Kindsight Counselling is about finding a soft place to land within the storm and learning how to be gentle with yourself and thrive in the face of adversity. My passion for understanding your personal experiences allows me to provide compassionate and empathic support, while helping you overcome barriers and live your life with courage and joy.
Life is messy and not always easy to navigate. It is easy to beat ourselves up, focus on all of the "shoulda-woulda-coulda's", but it is difficult to see the frame when you are part of the picture. Kindsight Counselling is about finding a soft place to land within the storm and learning how to be gentle with yourself and thrive in the face of adversity. My passion for understanding your personal experiences allows me to provide compassionate and empathic support, while helping you overcome barriers and live your life with courage and joy.
Are your thoughts and feelings impacting your daily routines? Have you felt stuck, or overwhelmed with family, friends, work and your home life? I am here to help you identify problematic thoughts and behaviours, by creating a plan to change. It takes courage to identify problem areas, and it takes dedication to work on changing them. We will work together to identify, change, and manage your presenting concerns. Understanding that we all have different worldviews, I use curiosity to understand how your cultural and intersecting identities contribute to your thoughts, feelings and change needs.
Are your thoughts and feelings impacting your daily routines? Have you felt stuck, or overwhelmed with family, friends, work and your home life? I am here to help you identify problematic thoughts and behaviours, by creating a plan to change. It takes courage to identify problem areas, and it takes dedication to work on changing them. We will work together to identify, change, and manage your presenting concerns. Understanding that we all have different worldviews, I use curiosity to understand how your cultural and intersecting identities contribute to your thoughts, feelings and change needs.
Operating for 16+ years, Street Therapy is a group practice, providing mental health services for clients across the lifespan. Our clinicians come from diverse academic, religious, spiritual, and cultural backgrounds, practicing within neurodiversity and anti-oppressive frameworks. We strive to provide a safe space for clinicians and clients alike to explore and engage in collaborative, and respectful, psychotherapeutic relationships. Bernadette Street, clinical supervisor and director of Street Therapy, has over 15 years of experience working with children, youth and adults. Her expertise informs the work of our team.
Operating for 16+ years, Street Therapy is a group practice, providing mental health services for clients across the lifespan. Our clinicians come from diverse academic, religious, spiritual, and cultural backgrounds, practicing within neurodiversity and anti-oppressive frameworks. We strive to provide a safe space for clinicians and clients alike to explore and engage in collaborative, and respectful, psychotherapeutic relationships. Bernadette Street, clinical supervisor and director of Street Therapy, has over 15 years of experience working with children, youth and adults. Her expertise informs the work of our team.
I work with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and the impact of trauma, including first responders and veterans.
I support various concerns, with a focus on couples and the perinatal period (fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and loss). My approach integrates psychodynamic, person-centred, and emotion-focused therapy to deepen self-awareness, strengthen emotional connection, and support lasting change..
I work with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and the impact of trauma, including first responders and veterans.
I support various concerns, with a focus on couples and the perinatal period (fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and loss). My approach integrates psychodynamic, person-centred, and emotion-focused therapy to deepen self-awareness, strengthen emotional connection, and support lasting change..
My work is informed by lived experience, by academic knowledge from my Master of Science in Couple and Family Therapy, and by previous clinical work at the Maplewoods Centre.
Personally and professionally, I have experienced the power of finding language that describes who we are and of being seen and supported in telling and retelling the stories that shape us. One of the ways we make sense of our experiences is through stories, both that we hold internally and that we share with others. It has been my honour and joy to join people in finding new and old meaning in their stories.
My work is informed by lived experience, by academic knowledge from my Master of Science in Couple and Family Therapy, and by previous clinical work at the Maplewoods Centre.
Personally and professionally, I have experienced the power of finding language that describes who we are and of being seen and supported in telling and retelling the stories that shape us. One of the ways we make sense of our experiences is through stories, both that we hold internally and that we share with others. It has been my honour and joy to join people in finding new and old meaning in their stories.
Glynis Burkhalter
Registered Psychotherapist, MDiv, MA, RP, RMFT-S
4 Endorsed
Kitchener, ON N2A
Waitlist for new clients
I am a Registered Marriage & Family Therapist & Approved Supervisor with CACFT and I am Certified EMDR Therapist.
I approach psychotherapy as a conversation, meaning I listen, ask questions to deepen your awareness of your experience, explain things and teach skills. I help clients notice how their thinking, emotions and physical sensations interact, how relational dynamics impact them, and from there find new ways to be with themselves and others.
I am a Registered Marriage & Family Therapist & Approved Supervisor with CACFT and I am Certified EMDR Therapist.
I approach psychotherapy as a conversation, meaning I listen, ask questions to deepen your awareness of your experience, explain things and teach skills. I help clients notice how their thinking, emotions and physical sensations interact, how relational dynamics impact them, and from there find new ways to be with themselves and others.
This may include play therapy for children, reality therapy and behavioral contracting for adolescents, communication and conflict resolution skills for couples, coaching and education for parents, or EMDR and cognitive therapy for trauma survivors.
Stuck? Frustrated? Confused? Feeling hopeless? Or just wanting some encouragement to find an answer that feels just out of reach? Whether it is a relationship problem, a parenting challenge, a bad habit, a negative cycle, or traumatic memories that keeps defeating you, I hope to provide you with a safe place to explore the roots of what is keeping you stuck, and help you find new options and hope through changing how you relate to yourself and others. I believe that emotional freedom, trust, and true intimacy in relationships comes from having good boundaries within ourselves and with others.
This may include play therapy for children, reality therapy and behavioral contracting for adolescents, communication and conflict resolution skills for couples, coaching and education for parents, or EMDR and cognitive therapy for trauma survivors.
Stuck? Frustrated? Confused? Feeling hopeless? Or just wanting some encouragement to find an answer that feels just out of reach? Whether it is a relationship problem, a parenting challenge, a bad habit, a negative cycle, or traumatic memories that keeps defeating you, I hope to provide you with a safe place to explore the roots of what is keeping you stuck, and help you find new options and hope through changing how you relate to yourself and others. I believe that emotional freedom, trust, and true intimacy in relationships comes from having good boundaries within ourselves and with others.
Couples counselling can help!
I specialize in couples counselling using interventions that are proven to build and repair relationships. Whether your relationship is new and you seek to build healthy communication, or a relationship seasoned with life's challenges and difficulties, it is never too late or too early to build healthy patterns.
Couples counselling can help!
I specialize in couples counselling using interventions that are proven to build and repair relationships. Whether your relationship is new and you seek to build healthy communication, or a relationship seasoned with life's challenges and difficulties, it is never too late or too early to build healthy patterns.
You are exhausted! You know that you could feel more fulfilled but you're not sure what to do next. You worry all the time, your energy is depleted, managing daily tasks feel impossible and you aren't feeling too great about yourself. You have a sense that your life should be different than this, that you should have a more meaningful purpose. Maybe you even know what that purpose is- but you're scared. Scared of being misunderstood, humiliated, rejected. Scared of failing. I know what that feels like. And if you're willing, I can help guide you through it.
You are exhausted! You know that you could feel more fulfilled but you're not sure what to do next. You worry all the time, your energy is depleted, managing daily tasks feel impossible and you aren't feeling too great about yourself. You have a sense that your life should be different than this, that you should have a more meaningful purpose. Maybe you even know what that purpose is- but you're scared. Scared of being misunderstood, humiliated, rejected. Scared of failing. I know what that feels like. And if you're willing, I can help guide you through it.
I have over a decade of experience supporting families and individuals in the Waterloo Region in their personal and collective transformation. I work with difficult emotions that feel like they are taking control, relationship dynamics that are causing stress, problematic patterns in our lives as well as impactful life events. Together we can sort through the good and the bad.
I have over a decade of experience supporting families and individuals in the Waterloo Region in their personal and collective transformation. I work with difficult emotions that feel like they are taking control, relationship dynamics that are causing stress, problematic patterns in our lives as well as impactful life events. Together we can sort through the good and the bad.
Within each of us lies the vision and hope for the life we want to live. Yet, we can feel overwhelmed by inner or outer challenges, fears, negative beliefs, low self-esteem, anxiety or depression. In many years of practice, I have seen the resilience of the human spirit. As a Spiritual Psychotherapist, I work with traditional approaches, as well as those rooted in Transpersonal Psychology, Archetypal Psychology and Shamanism which recognize the power and strength inherent within to facilitate change. My aim is to act as guide as clients address past pain and present circumstances that limit the ability to live a life in full bloom.
Within each of us lies the vision and hope for the life we want to live. Yet, we can feel overwhelmed by inner or outer challenges, fears, negative beliefs, low self-esteem, anxiety or depression. In many years of practice, I have seen the resilience of the human spirit. As a Spiritual Psychotherapist, I work with traditional approaches, as well as those rooted in Transpersonal Psychology, Archetypal Psychology and Shamanism which recognize the power and strength inherent within to facilitate change. My aim is to act as guide as clients address past pain and present circumstances that limit the ability to live a life in full bloom.
I am specially trained to treat couples for issues such as infidelity, conflict regulation, and intimacy needs.
I have a passion for supporting clients through difficult times, while helping them to achieve optimal psychological and emotional well being. I have extensive clinical training experience with a broad range of issues and treatment approaches and am comfortable with people of all cultures and orientations. Certified by the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario in the area of clinical counselling, I provide assessment, counselling and therapy using an integrative approach, weaving together various methods to suit your unique needs. I also supervise other therapists who are seeking accreditation with their professional bodies. I am an AAMFT Clinical Fellow and Supervisor IT.
I am specially trained to treat couples for issues such as infidelity, conflict regulation, and intimacy needs.
I have a passion for supporting clients through difficult times, while helping them to achieve optimal psychological and emotional well being. I have extensive clinical training experience with a broad range of issues and treatment approaches and am comfortable with people of all cultures and orientations. Certified by the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario in the area of clinical counselling, I provide assessment, counselling and therapy using an integrative approach, weaving together various methods to suit your unique needs. I also supervise other therapists who are seeking accreditation with their professional bodies. I am an AAMFT Clinical Fellow and Supervisor IT.
Couples:
Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional –Integrative Sex Therapy Institute
Completed-Currently in training and supervision for Certified Sex Therapist-Trained and experience in
Gottman Approach, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Imago.
Call today free consult-to see if I am a good fit! Professional counselling offered for the following concerns: therapy for anxiety, depression, anger management, relationship concerns, couples counselling and eating problems. I have additional training in various relaxation techniques, pain management, and sleep hygiene.
Couples:
Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional –Integrative Sex Therapy Institute
Completed-Currently in training and supervision for Certified Sex Therapist-Trained and experience in
Gottman Approach, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Imago.
Call today free consult-to see if I am a good fit! Professional counselling offered for the following concerns: therapy for anxiety, depression, anger management, relationship concerns, couples counselling and eating problems. I have additional training in various relaxation techniques, pain management, and sleep hygiene.
I work with adults and couples navigating relationship strain, emotional distress, trauma, grief, or questions about identity and self-understanding (including those in the LGBTQIA+ community).
I'm reflective & thoughtful, which helps people know themselves with clarity and compassion. Some clients come in anxious and leave relieved. Others arrive unsure of what to say & find the conversation opening naturally as we go. I try to bring warmth & humour into the room when it helps, and I'll be straightforward (& gentle) when something needs attention.
I work with adults and couples navigating relationship strain, emotional distress, trauma, grief, or questions about identity and self-understanding (including those in the LGBTQIA+ community).
I'm reflective & thoughtful, which helps people know themselves with clarity and compassion. Some clients come in anxious and leave relieved. Others arrive unsure of what to say & find the conversation opening naturally as we go. I try to bring warmth & humour into the room when it helps, and I'll be straightforward (& gentle) when something needs attention.
As a highly trained and experienced therapist, I support adults and couples as they work through their most difficult problems.
Many of my clients have experienced trauma, such as betrayal, abuse, loss or abandonment. Such painful experiences often have a long-lasting impact, including anxiety, depression, PTSD and relationship problems.
Despite those wounds, I have seen many clients become stronger and happier. With courage and compassion, I believe change is always possible.
As a highly trained and experienced therapist, I support adults and couples as they work through their most difficult problems.
Many of my clients have experienced trauma, such as betrayal, abuse, loss or abandonment. Such painful experiences often have a long-lasting impact, including anxiety, depression, PTSD and relationship problems.
Despite those wounds, I have seen many clients become stronger and happier. With courage and compassion, I believe change is always possible.
