Shirley Katz, PhD, RP, CCC

I am a Ph.D. level Psychotherapist with 25 years of experience. I studied Clinical Supervision for a year at the doctoral level which included experiential practice and supervision of supervision, then a doctoral internship which was year long where I also supervised M.A. level students and was supervised in that practice. I taught Counselling Psychology courses, both undergraduate and graduate courses at UBC, most of which were experiential learning. I taught, observed and graded counselling practice. I am a very direct and genuine person who believes in a humanistic stance, so though I am super supportive and empowerment focused, I am direct. I love watching therapists grow. I pride myself on facilitating competency and confidence in shorter times than people expect. Many supervisees come to me because they felt diminished or harmed with previous supervisors and then report having a corrective experience working with me. I have high standards but I believe in supporting people to get there as well. As far as eating disorders, I did research in my Honours degree, helped dozens of clients during internship and in the last 25 years, and also was a Body Image Expert on Goodtherapy for a few years.