Mikaela Pahulje

Mikaela Pahulje’s path through hospitals, youth treatment centres, and rehabilitation centres shaped a practice that is as grounded as it is wide-ranging. That varied clinical background informs the way she works: attentive to each person’s pace, drawing on modalities that include EMDR, Gottman Method for couples, and Certified Synergetic Play Therapy — an approach in which movement, art, music, and play become genuine tools for healing rather than accessories to it.

She works with children as young as two, teens, adults, couples, and families across Canada, supporting people through eating disorders, trauma and PTSD, grief, chronic pain, developmental challenges, separation and divorce, postpartum struggles, self-esteem, and sports performance, among other concerns.

Mikaela’s orientation is one of curiosity over prescription. She holds that each person carries an innate capacity for self-awareness, and that the therapeutic relationship is where that capacity gets room to grow. Rather than arriving with a fixed map, she helps clients build their own — one that reflects their voice, their strength, and what they’re actually moving toward.