Kate Lachance
MSW, RSW
Warm, empathetic and accepting, and believes in your inner strengths and ability to reach your goals.
Kate is a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers who values a client-centred, collaborative and trauma-informed approach to psychotherapy. Described as warm, empathetic and accepting, Kate believes in your inner strengths and ability to reach your goals.
Kate’s educational background includes an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree in anthropology and psychology, a post-graduate certificate in recreational therapy, an Honours Bachelor of Social Work Degree, and a Master of Social Work Degree. She has additional training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).
Not only is she passionate about mental health and well-being, she has experience supporting individuals in various settings including long-term care, residential treatment, as well as in-patient and outpatient mental health. Kate can help you build self-confidence or self-compassion, find your voice or authentic self, set boundaries or improve your relationships.
She can also help you understand, identify and manage your emotions, change unhealthy behaviours or coping responses, or understand and process the impacts of trauma. Kate believes in helping you to hone your strengths while developing the skills necessary to regain ownership of your life and live in accordance with your values.
What's one thing you've learnt from being in the helping field?
Being in the helping field has taught me the value of being compassionate with ourselves and each other: we all have a unique story to tell and we all need to be seen and heard for who we are. Our social relationships have a tremendous impact on our personal narratives. Our earliest relationships can shape how we perceive the world, other people, ourselves, and can, therefore, become either nourishing or detrimental to our sense of self and well-being. Our stories, however, are not absolute. Who we are is a narrative that is up to each and every one of us to tell. Stories can be rewritten, re-framed and reinterpreted as we learn, grow or heal with self-compassion.