Kathleen Brooks

Kathleen Brooks builds her practice on a simple conviction: lasting change happens when someone finally feels genuinely seen. Working from Ottawa and online across Ontario, she brings a trauma-informed, attachment-focused lens to the question of why certain painful patterns keep repeating — in relationships, in family dynamics, in the quiet story a person tells about their own worth. Her approach is collaborative and anti-oppressive, drawing on emotionally focused therapy to help clients understand how early experiences quietly shape the present.

She works with individuals, teens, and families carrying the weight of heartbreak, co-parenting tension, anxiety, separation, domestic or emotional abuse, anger, and struggles with self-worth and identity. For clients whose work follows them home — the message that arrives at 10 p.m., the inability to step away even when the day is technically done — Kathleen recognizes how that relentless connectivity compounds stress and erodes the boundaries that hold a life together.

Fluent in American Sign Language, she is committed to making therapy accessible and comfortable for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing clients. Across twelve years in community and clinical settings, her focus has remained consistent: help people untangle old patterns, reconnect with what they actually need, and build relationships that sustain rather than exhaust them.