Specialties
Women's issues

Anxiety

Life transitions

Stress

Coping mechanisms

LGBTQIA+ sexuality

Transgender and Nonbinary individuals

Identity issues

Gender and Sexuality

Multicultural

Family conflict/issues

Relationships/ Interpersonal issues

Treatment Orientation

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CBT

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Family Systems Therapy

Narrative Therapy

Eclectic

Person Centered

Multicultural Theory

Humanistic Therapy

Hello!

My name is Kaye Kumiko Michalak and I am from a multicultural background and identify as an Asian third-culture kid hoping to provide support and care for people with similarly diverse backgrounds. I understand that we as humans are multifaceted and contain multitudes, and I structure my sessions as such. Everything in life is a balancing act, between all of yourselves, those who you are close to, the environment around you and the culture of which you identify with and are from. It's easy to feel lost in the feelings that surround this balancing act sometimes, to hold everything together and to stand on one's own when it feels like the outside, cultural, social expectations are overwhelming.

When we are together we will move at your pace, I will meet you where you are at and go at your own speed. I look forward to getting to know you and your perspective to best meet your needs. I would describe my therapeutic style as casual, warm, collaborative, creative, authentic, and light-hearted. I also focus on a wholistic systems perspective, exploring the intersections and impacts of relationships, cultures, racial/gender identities and different environments. I am also body, sex, gender, non-monogamy positive accepting every body.

I am half Japanese, half American, I grew up mainly outside of the US. This background makes me uniquely suited to empathize with individuals who may also be from a multicultural background, those who have Asian parents, dealing with life transitions, those who identify with or have LGBTQIA+ issues, and those who deal with anxiety. I am an emotional, empathetic systems thinker and believe that we are constantly trying to find a balance between the different aspects of ourselves, our outer communities, our histories, cultures and our various environments and systems that we are apart of. I plan to meet individuals where they're at, and create a calm, casual environment, open to all working with different types of methodologies that works best with each person.