Hi, I'm Kaitlin Boyko!

I’m truly honoured that you’re here, and that you’ve taken the time to explore the psychotherapy services I offer, my approach to being a collaborative and trusted partner in your healing journey, and the personal story that led me to this work.

As a young person, I was often labeled a “troubled teen,” but in reality, I was an at-risk youth navigating the challenges of poverty and a family in survival mode. These early experiences shaped my understanding of adversity and resilience of diverse groups of people. It was through my own curiousity as an adolescent that led to ask myself, what I thought was a simple question, "why are people suffering? " Later on, while in college I began to add to my simple question "why are people suffering? and how can I help?"

From that point on, I committed myself to gathering the tools needed to be a source of support for others. I volunteered with Family and Children Services through the Resiliency Project, an art-based program for children, and worked with House of Friendship and YWKW as both an emergency shelter worker and a coordinator supporting LGBTQ2S+ and self-identifying adult women and men, youth, and families experiencing complex mental health and houselessness. It was in this work that I recognized how much I valued the time spent speaking with people, sharing space with folks who trusted me with their fears, anger, sadness, trauma.... their story.

I decided that this is how I can continue to help -  being a psychotherapist. I then started working at Kids Help Phone providing counselling to children and young adults across Canada while completing my Master’s degree, and later finished my clinical internship at Camino Wellbeing and Mental Health. Today, I bring all of that lived experience, training, and deep empathy into my work.

I believe that healing happens in the context of safe, authentic connection. My approach is deeply relational, supportive, and rooted in the belief that every person carries within them the resiliency and wisdom to experience growth and self-actualization. 

I seek to empower you by supporting you in embracing your humanity; the complexities, emotions, and inherent strengths.