Kelowna Counselling & Therapy
What happens when your life isn’t what you hoped for?
Compassionate counselling to help you heal, grow, and thrive.
Where hope nurtures new possibilities.
Tailored Support for Your Unique Journey
At Katharine Hansen Counselling, every session is designed around your needs. Whether you’re facing grief, anxiety, or navigating a major life change, I provide personalized support to help you uncover solutions, develop coping strategies, and find your path to healing and growth.
Specialized Care for Lasting Change
From relationship counselling and trauma recovery to building confidence with Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size®, I use evidence-based approaches that empower you to make meaningful, lasting changes in your life. Together, we’ll work toward greater clarity, resilience, and well-being.
Flexible, Accessible Counselling
Your convenience matters. I offer both in-person sessions in Kelowna and secure online counselling, so you can access the support you need, wherever you are. My compassionate, client-focused approach ensures you feel heard, supported, and guided every step of the way.
Welcome to Katharine Hansen Counselling
Life can be challenging, and sometimes, we all need a safe, supportive space to navigate its ups and downs. At Katharine Hansen Counselling, I’m here to help you work through life’s struggles—whether you’re dealing with grief, anxiety, relationship challenges, or a major life transition.
Together, we’ll create a path toward healing, personal growth, and resilience.
– Katharine Hansen
What happens when the life we are living is not the life we had hoped to live?
In life, we hold so many hopes and dreams for ourselves: a great job; amazing family and friends; the big house with a white picket fence; the perfect life.
The difference between expectations and reality is difficult to come to terms with. It’s in these moments that we have a choice to choose hope.
When we find ourselves scared, uncertain, or disillusioned due to challenging times, we often give up hope, rather than using hope as the light to help us to see new possibilities and move through the challenge in front of us. Without hope, we cannot trust ourselves to navigate life’s challenges, or take the steps needed to continue to pursue the life we want.
As the saying goes: “We only live once, but if we live well, once is enough.”
It’s never too late to create the life you want if you take the time to learn HOW!
Counselling Services Tailored to You
Every person who comes to counselling arrives carrying something different. The shape of what you are going through, and what you need from this work, is uniquely yours. Below are the areas I specialize in. Each service page goes into much more depth if you want to understand what working together on any of these might look like.
Grief Counselling
For people navigating loss in all its forms, from the death of a loved one to pregnancy loss, relationship endings, and the quiet grief of a life that has not gone the way you hoped.
Depression Counselling
For people carrying the weight of depression, whether it has arrived suddenly or been a quiet presence for years. Individual counselling that meets you where you are without pushing you past it.
Relationship Counselling
Individual counselling for people navigating relationship difficulty, whether you are trying to save a relationship, finding clarity about whether to stay or go, or moving through the end of something significant.
Body & Confidence
A weight-neutral, HAES-aligned approach to body image, self-esteem, emotional eating, and the relationship with your body and with food. Grounded in Intuitive Eating and genuine self-compassion.
Personal Crisis Counselling
For people in the middle of something that has overwhelmed their usual capacity to cope. Job loss, infertility, chronic illness diagnosis, emotional overwhelm, and the moments when life has asked more than you feel able to give.
Counselling For Women
Individual counselling built around the particular complexity of women’s lives: burnout, life transitions, identity shifts, fertility grief, caregiver exhaustion, and the pressure of carrying more than anyone around you can see.
Counselling Restores Hope
During these difficult times, it is so important to face the challenging emotions, overcome barriers, and find the meaning within the struggle. My entire practice is focused on finding and utilizing hope as a life skill to move through adversity.
Hope is the resource that shines light into darkness, allowing you to expand your awareness and see all the possibilities and options available to you. Every healing journey requires courage, willingness, an open mind, and an open heart.
The gift of hope allows us the resilience and enthusiasm needed to see and embrace the new possibilities that we so deeply desire and deserve. The gift of counselling shows you HOW!
Why Choose Katharine Hansen Counselling?
Katharine Hansen is a Kelowna-based counsellor offering individual counselling in person and online across BC. Her approach is warm, non-judgmental, and built entirely around the person in front of her rather than a fixed method or framework.
Katharine draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches including Person-Centered Counselling, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, and Somatic Experiencing. These are not techniques applied from a distance. They are ways of understanding human experience that help create the conditions for genuine change.
Her practice is grounded in the belief that every person who comes to counselling already has within them the capacity for healing and growth. Her role is not to fix or direct but to walk alongside, with honesty, with compassion, and with a deep and genuine commitment to your wellbeing.
Katharine works with adults navigating grief, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulty, life transitions, burnout, body image, and personal crisis. She sees clients individually and offers both in-person appointments in Kelowna and secure online sessions for clients across BC.
Book A Counselling Appointment Now
If you are a new client I would like to offer you a 20-min Free Online Consult for your first session.
How Gestalt and Experiential Therapy Support Emotional Awareness
Sometimes it’s not that you don’t understand what’s going on in your life, it’s that you can’t quite feel your way through it. You might find yourself overthinking, analyzing, or trying to “figure it out,” while still feeling stuck emotionally....
Understanding Person-Centered and Humanistic Counselling
When people begin counselling, one of the biggest questions is where to start. There are many different approaches, but some of the most supportive and foundational are Person-Centered Counselling and Humanistic Therapy. Both focus on understanding...
Kelowna Divorce Therapy: The Hidden Grief of Separation
Divorce and separation are often described in practical terms. Legal paperwork. Parenting schedules. Financial decisions. While these parts are important, they only tell part of the story. Beneath the logistics, many people experience a deep...
Hope in the New Year: Counselling Creates Space for Healing
Beginning Again: The Emotional Weight of a New Year The arrival of a new year can feel like a fresh start or a painful reminder of what hasn’t changed. For many, especially those carrying grief or emotional exhaustion, January doesn’t feel...
Find the Right Fit: Kelowna Counselling Services That Truly Support You
If you’ve been thinking about starting counselling, you may already know that taking the first step can feel overwhelming. Between researching therapists, navigating appointment waitlists, and wondering whether anyone will truly get you, it’s easy...
The Healing Power of Hope: How Counselling Helps You Move Through Adversity
When you're facing something hard such as grief, stress, transition, or emotional overwhelm, it’s easy to lose sight of the light ahead. In those moments, hope can feel distant, or even impossible. But hope isn’t just a feeling. It’s a skill. A...
Ready to Take the First Step?
You do not have to have it figured out before you reach out. Most people who come to counselling arrive without knowing exactly what they need, only that they need something to change. That is enough to start.
Individual counselling in Kelowna and online across BC. New clients are welcome to begin with a free 20-minute online consultation, no pressure and no commitment required. Just a conversation to see if this feels like the right fit.
Whatever you are carrying, you do not have to keep carrying it alone.
Book A Counselling Appointment Now
If you are a new client I would like to offer you a 20-min Free Online Consult for your first session.
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
– Louis L’Amour