Individuals, Teens, Couples

& Family Counselling

Counselling & Psychotherapy for Couples & Families in Orillia. In-Person & Virtual Session Available

adults and teenagers counselling

Worried about your child or teenager?

Is your child or teen struggling with anxiety, emotional outbursts, sadness, or withdrawal?
Are they having trouble at school, facing bullying, overwhelmed by peer pressure, or adjusting to major life changes like divorce, a move, or loss?

Children and teens often feel overwhelmed by emotions they don’t yet have the tools to express. You might notice:

  • Trouble sleeping or changes in appetite
  • Withdrawing from friends or family
  • Excessive worry, sadness, or mood swings
  • School avoidance or academic decline
  • Self-harm, risky behavior, or talk of wanting to disappear

These may be signs of anxiety, depression, grief, identity confusion, or stress-related challenges. Early support matters.

Therapy creates a safe, confidential space where children and teens can explore their emotions, build coping skills, and learn to navigate life with more confidence and calm. Whether your child is facing big emotions or small daily struggles, support is available.

📍Online and In-Person sessions are available
💛 Let’s work together to help your child heal, grow, and thrive.

Let's normalize therapy & learn that asking for help is okay!

Young people are the artists of their own lives. Each day brings a chance to reflect, grow, and create something new. Therapy supports children, teens, and young adults in building emotional strength, self-awareness, and healthy coping tools. Speaking with a trained psychotherapist is a life skill—empowering people of all ages to move forward with resilience and clarity

Individual, Couples & Family Counselling

Individual Counselling

Prioritize your Individual healing—your future self will thank you.

Karen offers individual psychotherapy for adults, teens, and children seeking support with anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, grief, ADHD, or life transitions. Sessions are available in-person, online, or by phone. Start your healing journey with compassionate, personalized therapy that supports emotional well-being and self-discovery.

Take the first step toward healing. Whether you're managing anxiety, grief, burnout, or simply feeling stuck, individual therapy can help you reset and reconnect.
Book a confidential session today—online or in-person.

Couples Counselling

Feeling distant or disconnected from your partner? Couples therapy helps rebuild trust, improve communication, and reignite emotional connection.
Karen uses a trauma-informed, strength-based approach tailored to your needs.

 Reconnect and grow together.
 Book your couples session today.

Family Counselling

Family therapy supports healthier communication, reduces conflict, and creates space for each voice to be heard. Karen helps families navigate stress, parenting challenges, and life transitions.

 Build a stronger, more connected family.
 Start your family’s healing journey today.

Family Connection / Re-Integration Therapy

This structured therapy supports families healing from separation or major transitions. Re-connection may come after a child and parent have been separated, alienated from each other and/or a refusal to see each other. Think of the re-connection between a parent and child as a process involving the collaboration of all parties. It takes time and a minimum starting with 6 months. it is a process and journey not an event.

Focus areas include:
✔ Healthy parenting styles & boundaries
✔ Clear communication & emotional safety
✔ Strengthened attachment & trust

 Rebuild connection with clarity and care.
 Contact Karen to explore if re-integration therapy is right for your family.

Positive Parenting Support

Parenting can be both joyful and overwhelming. Whether you're facing behaviour struggles, co-parenting differences, or emotional burnout, support is available.

Karen helps parents build emotional awareness, strong communication, and consistent, loving boundaries.

 Confident parents raise resilient kids.
 Book a parenting support session and create a calmer, more connected home.
adults and teenagers counselling

If you are single, in a relationship, widowed, divorced and/or facing transitions or challenges, you don't have to do it alone. Help is a phone call or email away.


Therapy has many benefits such as: speaking with someone who is non judgmental, discovering your strengths, improving relationships, building coping strategies, and your self esteem, and developing resiliency and communication tools.


Speaking with a professional regularly can set you up for success by putting together a care plan to meet your needs.

Parents play a critical role in guiding our youth in their mental health and well-being by encouraging them, to develop self worth, holding space, listening, and modeling coping strategies such as asking for help.  If your teenager is struggling with depression, anxiety, bullying, low self worth, anger, emotional outbursts or is withdrawn, quieter than usual, therapy can help.


Depression: Depression is a common Mental disorder which can affect relationships and all aspects of your life. It can result from or lead to difficulty at school or work and can happen to everyone. It may cause sadness, or lack of joy, feeling unworthy, and/or cause one to lose hope, trouble sleeping, change in appetite.


Teenagers will find a safe space to express their thoughts, issues, or worries in a supportive environment. Appointments are available online or In Person in Barrie, Ontario (Thursdays) or at 14 Peter St. S, Orillia, Ontario, M, T, W, Fri,  (days/evenings). Free consultations.

Therapy for children: Karen uses a creative approach with children ensuring they feel safe, and in a comfortable space to share their thoughts, often through creative play such as manipulatives, building tools, markers, sketch pads. 


Is your child/youth/teen experiencing difficulty in school, increased anxiety, lacking in coping skills? Has their behavior changed, mood swings, eating or sleeping habits or has there been a recent stress or change in the family?


Life transitions and changes affect everyone in different ways. Set up an appointment today.

Couples Therapy: Couples seek therapy for several reasons: miscommunication, living independently/parallel lives in the same household; mistrust, a traumatic event, a death, or conflicting views or expectations. Having a healthy relationship means learning effective communication styles, building respect and appreciation, and rediscovering what initially brought you together.

 Karen employs a client-centered, strength-based approach and utilizes a variety of modalities tailored to each client's specific needs.


Parenting is rewarding and challenging at the same time. Set up a free consultation or email kjm.soulpath@gmail.com


Parents:

*to learn healthy parenting styles 

* to recognize your triggers, heal past wounds (may require individual therapy on  your own)

*to learn healthy communication styles, to develop listening skills, and to respond in varied situations. 

*to learn and implement healthy attachment styles.


Family Therapy is designed to help families work through specific issues, recognize patterns, and move forward.  There are many pressures and stressors on families these days: transitions, health issues, blending of families, mental health, behavioral problems, a traumatic event, or death. Therapy can be a transformative experience, providing an opportunity for healing and personal growth. Single, widowed, divorced, separated, or as a couple - life can be challenging.


Family: 

*Establish core values for the family, a healthy set of guidelines 

*Establish healthy boundaries. 

*Healthy, secure attachment through positive interactions and bonding experiences as a family

*to establish and implement healthy boundaries and learning opportunities for all.

Siblings:

*for the siblings to freely express their thoughts, feelings, and needs

* to express their thoughts and experiences of how events have impacted them, and for these to be validated. 

We see clients in-person, by-telephone & virtually in Barrie & Orillia.