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Katelyn-Matias

Katelyn Matias

Registered Psychotherapist

Katelyn is a trauma-informed and relational therapist that works through an attachment-based lens. She recognizes how early experiences, relational injuries, and nervous system responses shape current patterns of behaviour, emotion, and connection. Her expertise is in helping individuals or couples navigate anxiety, childhood trauma, attachment wounds, infidelity, emotional distress, relational conflict, self esteem, identity, personality disorders and psychotic disorders. She also has a special interest in supporting women going through fertility challenges or postpartum depression. Her clinical approach is grounded in providing a safe, structured, and collaborative therapeutic environment where individuals and couples can explore their concerns with clarity and purpose.

Katelyn creates a specialized treatment plan tailored to your unique goals, values, and presenting concerns, with an emphasis on evidence-based practice and measurable change. She integrates Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based interventions, and person-centred approaches. With couples, therapy focuses on identifying and de-escalating negative interaction cycles, strengthening emotional safety, improving communication, and fostering secure attachment.

Using a collaborative therapeutic process, Katelyn ensures you feel supported in the therapeutic process by helping you increase self-awareness, process past traumas, develop emotional regulation skills, and building healthier relational patterns.

Therapeutic Approach:

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Attachment-based therapy

  • Person-Centred Therapy

  • Solution-Focused Therapy

  • Mindfulness-based interventions

  • Holistic and Humanistic approaches

  • EMDR

Specialities:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • ADHD
  • Stress
  • Emotional dysregulation
  • Relationship issues
  • Low self-esteem and confidence
  • Infidelity
  • Fertility
  • Perinatal/Postpartum Depression
  • Marital challenges
  • Attachment styles
  • Family Conflict

Supports

  • Family Therapy Hamilton Teens
  • Couples Therapy Hamilton Couples
  • Emotion Focused Therapy Adults

Credentials:

  • Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology- Yorkville University
  • Registered Psychotherapist – College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
  • Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)
  • Advances in treating trauma-related dissociation- PESI
  • Complex PTSD Clinical Workshop: A Comprehensive Approach to Accurately Assess and
    Effectively Treat Clients with Chronic, Repeated and/or Developmental Trauma- PESI
  • EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques- PESI
  • The Keys Behind How Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Heals PTSD- PESI
  • Dr. Sue Johnson’s Intensive Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy: Attachment-Based Interventions for Couples in Crisis – PESI
  • Risking, Reaching and Responding: Transforming Relationships in Stage 2 of EFT – PESI
  • Soothing the Threatened Brain: Using Attachment Science to Create Bonding, Satisfying Relationships with Sue Johnson, Ed.D. – PESI
  • A Therapist’s Guide to the Psychopharmacology of Trauma and Dissociation – PESI
Therapist Location Fees & Session Cost
In person Hamilton, Oakville & Online $170 (Hamilton) / $185 (Oakville)

Favourite Quotes

Connection is the energy that is created between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued

– Brené Brown

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

– Harville Hendrix

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