Kathryn Joy Atkinson
Counsellor, MA, RCC (she, her)
Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $180
- Couple Sessions $195
- Pay by ACH Bank transfer, Cash, Mastercard, Visa
Insurance
- First Nations Health Authority
- MCFD Autism Funding Unit
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by Province of British Columbia / 6221 Kathryn Joy Atkinson
- In Practice for 13 Years
- Membership with International OCD Foundation 2014
- Membership with The TLC Foundation for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviours 2021
- Attended Adler School of Professional Psychology, Master of Arts, Graduated 2011
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Autism
- Sleep or Insomnia
Expertise
- ADHD
- Anxiety
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Child
- Chronic Pain
- Depression
- Developmental Disorders
- Dual Diagnosis
- Family Conflict
- Gambling
- Hoarding
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infidelity
- Intellectual Disability
- Marital and Premarital
- Mood Disorders
- Parenting
- School Issues
- Spirituality
- Tics and Tourette's
- Trauma and PTSD
- Trichotillomania, Dermatillomania (BFRBS)
4 Endorsements
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Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Adlerian
- CBIT for Tics and Tourette's
- Clinical Supervision and Qualified Supervisors
- Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Exposure Response Prevention (ERP)
- Family / Marital
- Habit Reversal Therapy (HRT)
- Interpersonal
- Motivational Interviewing
- Play Therapy
- Psychodynamic
- Trauma Focused
Groups
OCD Support Group
Group for adults experiencing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Support groups offer a safe place for expression of symptoms and experiences, as well as an opportunity to develop new strategies to try. This group is offered online on Zoom.
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Zoom
Nanaimo, BC V9R
Body Focused Repetitive Behaviours Group
A workshop for individuals or caregivers of children and youth who engage in body focused repetitive behaviours such as trichotillomania, nail, lip, cheek biting, and dermatillomania. This group is offered online on Zoom.
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Zoom
Nanaimo, BC V9R
Zoom OCD Parent Support Group
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder impacts the entire family system. Family accommodation, burn out, and frustration with limited services are the typical experiences family's report when they have a child with OCD. Join us in a welcoming and supportive atmosphere for a time of sharing and listening as parents come together to encourage and problem solve together. Facilitated by Kathryn, a clinical counsellor, this group is for individuals who have children of any age with OCD like tendencies. It is an opportunity for caregivers to come together and realize that they are not alone.
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Island Clinical Counselling
Nanaimo, BC V9R
Location
Additional Location
Island Clinical Counselling
6750 Island Highway North
Nanaimo, BC V9V
(778) 718-5446