$180-$200 per hour

Katie Tompkins

REGISTERED SOCIAL WORKER
virtual and in-person

Katie Tompkins is a Registered Social Worker located in Calgary, Alberta. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Mount Royal University and a Master of Social Work with a clinical specialization from the University of Calgary.

She believes that therapeutic success is largely based on the connection made with the therapist. If you’re struggling and looking for a safe environment to address these concerns, please reach out for a free 15-minute phone consultation to ensure it is a good fit for the both of you.

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Who Can Katie Help?

Katie has over 3 years of experience providing support to children, youth, and adults to overcome a variety of challenges including anxiety, depression, trauma, workplace issues, self-esteem, and relationship challenges.

Children

Katie has experience supporting children with emotional regulation, divorce, death, and adjustment challenges.

Adolescents

Katie works with teenagers who are experiencing anxiety, depression, low self esteem, suicidal ideation and self harm.

Adults

With years of experience counselling adults, Katie can help with anxiety, depression, trauma (PTSD), and relationship issues.

LGBTQ2S+

Katie provides a safe space to explore sexuality and gender identity while learning skills to nurture self love and acceptance.

Child Counselling

Katie has worked with children in several different settings including group homes, schools, and health centres. Her experience has taught her that children benefit the most from a fun and engaging environment. Therefore, she uses plenty of game and craft based therapeutic approaches to help the child open and learn new ways to express themselves.

There is great importance in having the family involved in child counselling, and so she will often provide guardians with regular updates and occasionally even invite them to attend part of the
sessions.

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Katie's Therapeutic Approaches

She recognizes that counselling is not a ‘one size fits all’, and instead will meet each person where they are at. Katie will meet your needs by drawing from variety of empirically supported treatments such as Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and narrative therapy.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy

Katie is trained and certified in accelerated resolution therapy (ART). She finds that ART is a great approach to help individuals process and heal from their traumatic experiences without needing them to verbalize all the details and having to re-traumatize them.

Facilitator in Group Therapy Sessions

She has extensive experience creating and running child, adolescent and parent groups including a teen anxiety programs, multiple family programs for divorced and nuclear families, in school groups such as leadership, social skills, friendships and girls groups.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

A lot of research supports cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for treating anxiety and depression. During her sessions, Katie uses CBT to help her clients identify, question, challenge and change how they think, feel and behave towards themselves and others.

Narrative Therapy

Katie finds that narrative therapy is a great alternative for people to understand and express themselves, find their voice for good and help them become the authors of their own lives.

Expressive Art Therapy

Expressive art therapy incorporates writing, painting, music and dancing to help individuals find openly express themselves while finding self-acceptance, understanding, meaning, and healing.

Get Matched To The Right Therapist

Not sure who can help you? You can either fill out the form to be matched to a therapist that specializes in your unique situation or give us a call at (403) 588-7639.

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AIRDRIE, AB

Unit #17 - 620 - 1 Ave NW
Airdrie, AB T4B 2R3

SOUTH CALGARY

290 Midpark Way SE #330,
Calgary, AB T2X 1P1

NORTH CALGARY

2000 Pegasus Rd NE
Calgary, AB T2E 8K7

RED DEER, AB

4915 54 Street - 3rd Floor
Red Deer, AB T4N 2G7
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