Biography
Three Decades of Clinical Experience, Focused on Results
Karine Langley holds a PhD in Psychotherapy and has practised for more than 30 years. Her work is concentrated where it counts: trauma, PTSD, and insomnia. Clients have reported relief from PTSD symptoms and insomnia within the first week of working with her.
I hold a PhD in Psychotherapy and have practised for more than 30 years. My clinical work is concentrated in trauma, PTSD, and insomnia, and clients have reported relief from PTSD symptoms and insomnia within the first week of working with me. I offer counselling in Ottawa for people who are carrying more than they want to keep carrying alone.
Some clients come because anxiety has started to shape their days. Others come because grief, trauma, depression, relationship stress, addiction patterns, or family strain have made ordinary life feel heavier than it should.
My work is grounded in three decades of clinical experience, careful listening, and practical support that helps clients understand what is happening inside them without being judged or reduced to a diagnosis.
For clients who want faith included, Catholic psychotherapy can create space for spiritual concerns, moral distress, questions of meaning, grief, forgiveness, family responsibility, and personal suffering. Faith is never forced into the work. Clients decide how much of their spiritual life belongs in therapy.
For some people, that means naming prayer, conscience, vocation, or Church life as part of the conversation. For others, it simply means working with a therapist who respects Catholic values while still providing clinically grounded counselling.
Faith-Aligned Catholic Psychotherapy
In a first session, clients can expect a focused conversation about what has been happening, what they want help with, and what would make therapy feel useful. The work moves at a pace that respects safety. Some sessions focus on understanding patterns.
Others focus on practical coping, emotional regulation, communication, grief work, trauma recovery, or changes in daily routines. I also offer bilingual counselling in English and French so clients can speak in the language that feels most natural when discussing personal or painful experiences.
Catholic faith integration is optional. Clients decide whether faith, culture, family responsibility, moral distress, or spiritual concerns belong in the work.
Clinical Focus Areas
Karine supports clients across a range of concerns that often overlap rather than staying neatly separate.
Professional Background
PhD in Psychotherapy
Doctoral-level training in psychotherapy, with advanced focus on PTSD treatment, trauma-informed interventions, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and addictions counselling.
30+ Years in Practice
More than three decades supporting clients, with care provided under the ethical and professional standards of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.
Bilingual Practice
Counselling is available in English and French so clients can speak in the language that feels most natural for personal concerns.