Our Team
Our team includes Registered Clinical Counsellors offering full-fee counselling services and Masters-level Counselling Student Interns providing affordable mental health support.
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Registered Clinical Counsellors
Kathryn McInroy (she/her)
MEd, RCC, CT, RP, ADHD-CCSP
Owner & Clinical Director
Kathryn is the Owner & Clinical Director of Gravitate, as well as a practicing Registered Clinical Counsellor. She supports clients with stress management, goal setting, relationship concerns, and life transitions. Kathryn helps clients develop ADHD-adapted skills and strategies to support them to achieve their goals. She is trained in the Gottman Method Couples Therapy approach and offers a space to talk freely about sex, sexuality, intimacy and pleasure.
Hailey Roy (she/her)
MA, RCC
Hailey offers counselling on Vancouver Island and across BC. She offers a supportive environment to explore change, identify desired steps, and take action toward preferred outcomes. She offers neurodiversity-adapted counselling support, and can help with relationship concerns, grief and loss, life changes, anxiety, depression and stress management. She works with children (6+), youth, adults, couples and families.
Jenny Harris (she/her)
MACP, RCC
Jenny offers virtual counselling services to clients in Victoria and across BC. She works with clients wanting to set goals, make decisions, and explore solutions. Jenny can help with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, parenting, boundary setting, life transitions, healthy relationship skills, and self-empowerment work. She works with individuals (18+) and couples.
Christina Atkinson (she/her)
MACP, RCC
Christina provides in person therapy in Victoria, BC and virtual counselling to clients across BC. She works with clients to manage anxiety, address sleep issues and insomnia, improve sexual wellbeing, develop self-esteem, explore personal growth, and enhance communication skills. Christina offers individual counselling to youth (13+) and adults.
Gretal Montgomery (she/her)
MA, RCC, ADHD-CCSP
Gretal helps clients to explore, understand, and resolve issues causing discomfort or concern in their life. She supports her clients to develop a deeper understanding of personal agency, values, inner gifts, and strengths. She offers ADHD-informed care and has extensive training in supporting neurodiverse clients. Gretal offers individual counselling to youth (12+) and adults. She identifies as a culturally responsive counsellor and offers inclusive counselling services to clients of all sexual and gender identities/expressions.
Ann Downie (she/her)
MEd, RCC, ADHD-CCSP
Ann offers counselling for parenting challenges, relationship difficulties, grief and loss, ADHD, and trauma. She helps clients move through life changes, burnout, and stress. She prioritizes warmth, compassion, openness, and curiosity in her work with clients, with a focus on supporting client self-discovery and personal agency. Ann offers individual counselling to youth (16+), adults, couples, and families. She offers in person therapy in Victoria, BC and virtual counselling to clients across BC.
Christina McGill (she/her)
MA, RCC, ADHD-CCSP
Christina supports those experiencing anxiety, depression, distressing thoughts, relationship/family conflict, and ADHD. She has extensive experience working with people who have experienced trauma. She offers space for clients to feel deeply understood and validated while addressing the challenges that interfere with their ability to live their best life. She works with adult clients (18+).
Kathryn Dale (she/her)
MSW, RSW, RCC
Kathryn works with clients struggling with difficult life transitions, including separation and divorce, a new health diagnosis, becoming a caregiver, and loss of a loved one. She also works with clients experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety. She supports adults in individual sessions.
Bob Bircher (he/him)
MA, RCC
Bob’s counselling philosophy is practical, assisting people in identifying solutions to their problems and motivating them to make the changes. Using his training in the Gottman Method, he helps couples improve or repair their relationships. He also supports separated partners succeed in shared parenting. His work with individuals focuses on life transitions, grief/loss, and relationship ambivalence.
Shauna Burns-Thomson (she/her)
MSc, RCC, C.Hyp
Shauna provides inclusive, collaborative and trauma-informed counselling supports to adults. The focus areas of her practice are healthy sexual development, stress and related disorders, and trauma. Her goal is to help clients live their best, most fulfilling life possible. She supports individuals, couples, and partners in non-traditional relationships.
Kayla Fleming (she/her)
MC, RCC, ADHD-CCSP
Kayla offers a calm space when things feel chaotic and compassion when her clients are feeling vulnerable. Her expertise lies in working with couples using the Gottman Method to address harmful relationship dynamics and have a deeper and more meaningful relationship. Kayla also specializes in working with parents to understand challenging behaviours, support their child’s development, and work through parenting struggles. She provides ADHD-informed care to her clients.
Jennifer Mussell (she/her)
BSW, MSc, RSW, RCC, C.Hyp, ADHD-CCSP
With a client-centered, trauma-informed, and inclusive approach at the core of her practice, Jennifer’s expertise extends across a spectrum of challenges including depression, anxiety, ADHD, relationship issues, career concerns, loss, parenting and caregiving, and substance use. She works with adult clients (18+) on an individual basis.
Emmalee Brunt (she/her)
MC, RCC
Emmalee provides trauma-informed therapy to children and adults. Her work with clients focuses on relationships, parenting, aging, critical and terminal illness, and grief and loss. She provides support with anxiety, depression, addiction and sleep issues. Emmalee has experience supporting neurodivergent clients, and provides ADHD-informed care. She offers in person counselling in Victoria, BC.
Andee Dale (she/her)
MA, RCC-ACS, CT, ADHD-CCSP
Andee works with people on a variety of challenges, including mental health, addiction, trauma, grief and loss, ADHD, stress and parenting. She provides hands on strategies to help clients navigate day to day distress and supports them to develop skills to meet their goals. Andee specializes in counselling for clients struggling with food addiction, emotional eating, disordered eating, and eating disorders.
Counselling Interns
Victoria Dendy (she/her)
Counselling Student Intern
Victoria provides affordable virtual counselling services to clients (16+) on Vancouver Island and across BC. She helps clients build resilience, navigate challenges, reduce distress, and increase mental wellbeing. Victoria can help clients with academic and work stress, neurodiversity challenges including ADHD, anxiety, parenting, relationship issues, and grief and loss. She works with individuals, couples, and families.
Alayna Annett (she/her)
Counselling Student Intern
Alayna offers affordable virtual counselling on Vancouver Island and across BC. Her work with clients focuses on healthy relationship building, boundary setting, identity exploration, personal growth and self-empowerment, navigating relationship transitions and challenges, and dismantling shame. She works with adults (18+).
Cynthia Then (she/her)
Counselling Student Intern
Cynthia offers low cost virtual counselling services to clients (16+) on Vancouver Island and across BC. She helps clients manage depression and anxiety, increase their sense of purpose and meaning, recover from burnout and stress, and develop healthy relationship skills including boundary setting and communication.