Katie Wicik (she/her)

M.Ed, RSW, CACFT Associate Member

Katie is a Registered Social Worker, with over 25 years of experience in mental health, addictions, neurodiversity, and 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming care. She has worked across hospital, educational, community, and private practice settings. She is also a published author with a background in education, research, and media engagement.

Katie offers parent coaching, couples therapy, and family therapy, with a strong focus on supporting both parents and partners in building healthier, more connected relationships. As a couple and family therapist, she applies a systemic framework to support individuals, couples, families, and parents in a collaborative and compassionate way.

Katie specializes in relationships, with particular expertise in parent coaching and couples therapy. She helps parents navigate complex family dynamics and supports couples in strengthening connection, improving communication, and working through challenges such as conflict, life transitions, and betrayal.

She also works with individuals and families across a wide range of concerns, including premarital transitions, parenting, separation and divorce, grief, and loss. Her work is tailored to meet the unique needs of clients navigating mental health and neurodiversity-related experiences such as OCD (including Relationship OCD), hoarding, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and giftedness.

Her integrative approach draws from a variety of evidence-based modalities including Systems Theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Self-Compassion, and expressive writing. She thoughtfully adapts these approaches for both couples therapy and parent coaching work.

Katie holds an Advanced Certificate in Couple and Family Therapy Studies (with distinction) from the University of Guelph, an M.Ed. in Special Education and Counselling (with distinction) from Brock University, and a B.A. (Hons) in Psychoanalytic Thought and Sociology from the University of Toronto.

Katie is an Associate Member of the Canadian Association for Couples and Family Therapy (CACFT; on the RMFT track) and a Professional Member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). This RMFT designation reflects advanced, specialized training and experience in this distinct mental health discipline. She is also on the Board of Directors for the CACFT.

“The quality of our relationships determine the quality of our lives”. – Ester Perel