Katherine (Zhili) Guo
MA Candidate, RP (Qualifying)
She/Her
Katherine is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in good standing with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.
Location: ON
Languages of Care: English, Mandarin
Teletherapy, Online Therapy, In-Person Sessions
Types of Therapy: Individual Therapy (18+), Couples Therapy, Family Therapy
Modalities: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Emotion-Focused / Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Family Systems Theory, Multi-cultural Therapy, Multi-systemic Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Object Relations Psychotherapy, Polyvagal Informed Therapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Status: Accepting clients
Katherine is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. She is drawn to the quieter, often unseen parts of people’s lives, the ways early relationships, family histories, and unspoken experiences continue to shape how we feel, love, and cope today.
Her work is rooted in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapy, informed by narrative, existential, feminist, and polyvagal approaches. She integrates relational depth with somatic awareness, helping clients understand not only their emotions, but the protective strategies that once ensured survival. Katherine works with adults navigating childhood and relational trauma, grief and loss, identity transitions, burnout, and relationship challenges, including those exploring the immigrant experience and bicultural identity.
She is especially passionate about women’s mental health, including the prenatal, perinatal, and postpartum journey, involuntary childlessness, and choosing to be childfree. Katherine views therapy as a space of reclamation and liberation, where clients can untangle inherited narratives, reconnect with their agency, and begin living in ways that feel more self-directed, embodied, and free.
Katherine specializes in Abandonment, Abuse / Survivors of Abuse, Anxiety, Attachment Issues, Avoidant Personality, Blended Family Issues, Body Image, Borderline Personality, Breakups, Career Guidance, Communication Problems, Complex Posttraumatic Stress (C-PTSD), Depression, Divorce / Divorce Adjustment, Domestic Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Emotional Abuse, Family Conflict, Family of Origin Issues, Fertility Issues, Grief, Loss, and Bereavement, Infertility, Life Transitions, Peer Relationships, Perfectionism, Polyamory / Nonmonogamous Relationships, Prenatal, Pregnancy, Postpartum, Racial Identity, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Sensitivity to Criticism, Stress, Trauma and PTSD, Women’s Issues, Workplace Issues