Melanie Katz

Melanie (Mel) is a registered social worker who works with children, adults, and families. Mel helps adults nurture healthy relationships in their lives. She can help you strengthen your communication, conflict resolution, and boundary-setting skills. She’ll support you to navigate complex family dynamics, romantic partnerships, friendships, co-workers, and other relationships. Her goal is to help you develop relationships built on trust, safety, joy, and respect.

Mel helps families to identify issues that contribute to conflict. She provides tools to express thoughts and emotions in a productive manner. Mel helps families and children to manage difficult, stressful, or emotional life events, such as separation or divorce. 

Mel’s background as an Ontario Certified Teacher and Crisis Responder Coach at Kids Help Phone helps her to empower kids and teens. She can support kids and teens to channel their internal strengths, resilience, and resourcefulness. 

Mel will motivate you to develop a brighter vision for the future, and support you to learn the skills you need to achieve it.  Mel believes that strong feelings like anxiety shouldn’t keep you from living the life you want and deserve. Mel tailors her approach to you and your needs. She’ll meet you where you’re at, actively collaborate with you, and empower you to move at a pace that suits your needs.