Begin your path to a more fully lived life: depth-oriented therapy for meaningful change.

Meet the Founder of Head and Heart Counselling: Katherine Young, M.Ed., Registered Clinical Counsellor

Katherine Young is the founder and clinical director of Head & Heart Counselling, a Vancouver-based psychotherapy clinic, where she brings over 20 years of experience working with individuals and couples.

Katherine provides individual therapy and couples counselling in Vancouver, supporting clients navigating relationships challenges, as well as anxiety, trauma, depression and many other issues. Her work focuses on helping couples and individuals with both relationships and their own process of individuations. Her work is rooted in a deep respect for the complexity of human experience—where psychological insight meets the deeper questions of meaning, identity, love, transformation and liberation. Using a Jungian lens and drawing from modalities such as Gestalt Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), EMDR therapy, and existential and psychodynamic approaches, Katherine supports clients not only in reducing symptoms, but in engaging more fully with their lives.

Her approach is both grounded and expansive. While attentive to attachment, trauma, and relational patterns, Katherine’s work also reflects a transpersonal orientation—integrating insights from contemplative traditions and depth psychology. In her work with couples especially, she is interested in how love, intimacy, and growth often ask more of us than safety. It asks us to draw on courage, to engage full aliveness, risk and deep compassion. Couples counselling with Katherine focuses not only on improving communication and resolving conflict, but also on helping partners encounter one another more authentically, with greater emotional clarity, romance, eroticism, challenge and love.

Clients who work with Katherine often seek not just relief, but vitality, self actualization and deeper understanding in how they live and love. Her work is particularly well suited to those looking for couples counselling in Vancouver, or a depth-oriented approach to psychotherapy that integrates both psychological and contemplative insight.

Couples counselling with Katherine focuses not only on communication and conflict, but on helping partners encounter one another more directly, with greater emotional clarity and responsiveness. In her work with couples, she is particularly interested in how love and transformation often ask more of us than the pursuit of safety. They ask a love of truth, and reverence of beauty.

Psychotherapy, in many ways, has roots in older wisdom traditions—Zen Buddhism, Sufism, Taoism, Advaita Vedanta, Kabbalah, and Christian mysticism—traditions that became largely separated from mainstream clinical practice. While the introduction of mindfulness marked an important return, these traditions point to a broader understanding of suffering and the means of transformation that extend beyond symptom management to the roots of identity itself and the limitations of mind. Katherine’s work is informed by wider lineages, and direct insight, not as dogma, but as a way of orienting to experience that includes, but is not limited to, the psychological.

Recent shifts in the counselling field—including renewed psychedelic research and a growing recognition of the limits of purely symptom-focused models—have opened space for a more expansive approach to healing. Katherine’s work reflects this shift, supporting clients who are seeking not only relief, but a deeper sense of freedom, aliveness, and participation in their lives.

At a certain point, the question is no longer how to stay safe, but whether you are willing to live more fully in what is real—where something unlived begins to unfold through you.