Karen Goslin & Associates
Straight talk. Specific strategies. Real change.
Effective psychotherapy rooted in expertise, honesty and proven results since 1998.
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About Karen Goslin & Associates
Psychotherapy with direct honesty, specific strategies, and positive outcomes.
With over 30 years in clinical practice, we welcome children, teens, adults, couples, and families facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, chronic pain/illness, emotional dysregulation, and relationship stress, including relationship breakdown, separation and divorce.
You will receive:
- Clear explanations of your symptoms and patterns
- Comprehensive understandings of what is happening and why
- Structured, actionable treatment plans at the end of your assessment
- Tools that are actively practiced, implemented, and refined, targeting present trigger situations and historical resilience and pain
Clients appreciate the straight, compassionate honesty that motivates real, lasting change.
When someone hires me, it's usually because they are looking to make an important change in their life. I take that responsibility very seriously. With over 30 years of direct clinical experience, I offer a trademarked therapeutic approach that gives you clear explanations, actionable strategies and tools, and meaningful outcomes - well beyond just listening.
Whether we meet in person or virtually, my job is the same: To help you understand what is happening, why it’s happening, and what to do about it — starting now.
Karen Goslin, MSW RSW
Psychotherapist
Registered Social Worker
The KG Accountable Therapy™ Method
Tools that turn insight into action
At KG & Associates, we combine warmth and care with the honesty and accountability you deserve and need to create real change.
Daily Self-Care Accountability Program: Optimizing sleep, nutrition, exercise, and leisure in ways that improve your life
Cognitive Behavioural ‘Change’ Tool: A 3-step, 5-minute daily brain health exercise to hold you accountable toward assertive communication, effective decision making and important planning
Powerful Grief Tool: An in-session therapeutic writing process that empowers you to take control of your life after loss, creating a healthier future because of the loss
Mindfulness Plan: Personalized exercises to improve self-awareness, confidence, social skills, and emotional regulation
Healing Circuits: Deep psychodynamic exploration and reframing exercises with actionable takeaways for now
Relapse Prevention Planning Tool: A 3-step framework to manage addictions and compulsive patterns, toward abstinence or harm reduction, using clear insight, alternative decision making, more effective emotional processing, thought correction and redirected behaviour
Unique Couple & Family CBT Programs: Speaking the same language between loved ones to reduce damage caused by interpersonal trigger reactions and to repair relationships
Betrayal Process: A 3-step therapeutic exercise to rebuild trust and create a healthier relationship when there has been dishonesty, infidelity, painful “exits” to the intimacy
Unique Imago Program: Teaching couples how to solve problems while strengthening their connection and love
3-Part Healing Conversations: Restoring family relationships affected by past disruptions
Separation & Divorce Programs: Tailored support for individuals, couples, and families at any stage, including preventing a separation, grieving the breakdown, rebuilding after loss/building a successful blended family
What sets us apart is our balance of:
Compassionate support grounded in the deep understanding of human patterns where strengths and potential are too easily undermined by imperfect reactions and sabotaging belief systems with honest direction—not always what you want to hear, but what you need to hear to be brave in taking different steps that will work better for you, and ultimately get you closer to what you really want in your life.
What you can expect:
- Personalized specific recommendations at the end of your first appointment
- Clear treatment plans launched from your assessment, working with your resilience while targeting your concerns, problematic reactions and goals
- Expert tools drawn from evidence-based theory, adapted into practical strategies
- Specific real-life practice reviewed and refined in follow-up sessions
- Tangible choices to make in the present, based on important reframes of the past
Types of psychotherapy
Individual Therapy
Your program is designed at the end of your comprehensive assessment. You’ll receive a personalized KG Accountable Therapy™ treatment plan that may include:
- The Self-Care Accountability Program
- The Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) KG Accountable Therapy ™ ‘Change’ Tool
- A Mindfulness/Emotional Regulation Plan (The KG Accountable Therapy ™ Dialectical Therapy Program)
- Trauma-Informed/Focussed tools, grief/addiction management tools, and associated daily brain health exercises
- Psychodynamic Healing Circuits targeting the significant parts of your past strengths and pain, leading to specific here-and-now steps
- Specialized Chronic Pain and Illness Management, including daily self-monitoring and deeper healing
Each part of your program is customized, practiced, and refined, until meaningful change is effective and sustainable.
Couples Therapy
After your couples assessment, you’ll receive a KG Accountable Therapy™ treatment program combining:
- A Joint Vision to begin the process by creating unity between the partners, and to ensure we capture what is most important to you
- A Couple-Based CBT to reduce trigger reactions, control damage caused by negative reactions and ultimately improve expression, listening, and problem-solving
- Unique KG Accountable Therapy™ Imago micro and expanded tools to improve communication and conflict resolution, while deepening intimacy and connection
- In-session KG Accountable Therapy™ deeper dialogues capitalizing on each partner’s past experiences, and current partner re-enactments, to create specific opportunities within the healthier relationship
- A specific KG Accountable Therapy™ Betrayal and Trust-Rebuilding therapeutic process, where needed
You will learn how to embrace the initial attractions you once had for each other, reframe and find deep meaning in the painful conflicts, differences, and breakdowns you are having, to cultivate a much more secure, vital future.
Family Therapy
Families of young or adult children/siblings receive structured, practical treatment plans that honour the intergenerational narratives in ways that create present-day tools to:
- De-escalate conflicts
- Communicate more effectively
- Heal past hurts
- Share and support individual addiction relapse prevention/mental health plans, where indicated
- KG Accountable Therapy™ Therapeutic Conversations to repair betrayal and identify/support present recovery
- Respond to each other from a healthier emotional place
- Carry the family to the next developmental stage for each individual member’s life and for the family as a whole
These sessions ensure families have specific strategies to: repair disruptions and/or recurring problems and broken trust, learn new interpersonal patterns, move forward in ways that feel emotionally safer and more gratifying, and support all members’ stages of development.
Child & Teen Therapy
The KG Accountable Therapy™ offers a unique program for children and teens that include parents to ensure needs are being addressed, and reduce ‘working in the dark’ where otherwise responses unintentionally undermine the individual therapy of the child/teen, or cause harm and includes:
- Choices of a brief one session assessment, to review concerns and impact, or a more comprehensive assessment pathway including break out sessions with individual members and feedback sessions to address child development, the parents history/parenting styles, family stressors, siblings, step-parents
- Non-pathological narrative/externalization/family system informed approaches to promote self esteem, where the experience of therapy targets symptoms and causes while reducing scapegoating, modifying needed family dynamics and creating a positive experience of ‘asking for help’ for your child that benefits them for the rest of their life
- Child Adapted Cognitive Behavioural Programs to change problematic reactions
- Customized Confidence-building, Mindfulness, Emotional Regulation, and Psychodynamic-Informed Tools
- Parenting Plans and Tools informed by the individual child/teen therapy
Children and teens build specific, empowering strategies to overcome depression, anxiety, stress, bullying, trauma, conflict, and/or grief, with family support woven into the process to create sustainable change.
What our clients are saying
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Our therapists & partners
We offer expert psychotherapy services, tailored to support you and your family’s well-being as licensed social workers
Karen Goslin, MSW, RSW
Psychotherapist | Registered Social Worker
For more than 30 years, Karen has dedicated her career to psychotherapy, establishing her private practice, KG & Associates, in 1998. She later trademarked her signature approach—The KG Accountable Therapy™ method—a model built on her unwavering belief that therapy should create real, lasting change.
This means going far beyond simply listening. Beyond offering warmth and compassion. Beyond telling clients what they want to hear or having conversations that feel helpful for a moment but fade by morning.
Karen’s method is about achieving and sustaining clarity, direction, and growth by:
- Launching treatment plans from important how and why explanations behind the emotional struggles
- Equipping clients with necessary, practical, everyday tools
- Turning past reframed pain into powerful, present-day “go-to’s”
She works with individuals, couples, families, and clients of all ages—children, teens, adults, and seniors—who are navigating depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, chronic pain or illness, and relationship or marital challenges.
Janice D’Souza, MSW, RSW
Insightful Minds | Registered Social Worker | Partner of KG & Associates
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Insightful Minds.
With over 8 years in the field, Janice D’Souza brings warmth, insight, and strong accountability to her clients, fully reflecting the KG Method.
This collaboration gives clients greater flexibility in scheduling, building a ‘team’ of therapists for your family and more options for expert care.
Janice is available for virtual therapy sessions.
Psychotherapy Matters
Psychiatric partner
Partners since 2020, we deeply understand the benefit of having a clear diagnosis and effective medications for those struggling with more serious mental health issues.
What is so extraordinary about this partnership is that:
The psychiatric assessment is available within four weeks or less of registering, and the comprehensive written report for the client, therapist and family doctor is available within two weeks of the appointment, significantly shortening average local wait times.
Specialized assessments for ASD, ADD ADHD are 75% cheaper than most private health clinics.
AND the assessments are fully integrated into the therapeutic process, so clients feel less alone, and the interface between the psychiatrist and therapist is seamless, ensuring a comprehensive continuity of care.
This means going far beyond simply listening. Beyond offering warmth and compassion. Beyond telling clients what they want to hear or having conversations that feel helpful for a moment but fade by morning.
Karen’s method is about achieving and sustaining clarity, direction, and growth by:
- Launching treatment plans from important how and why explanations behind the emotional struggles
- Equipping clients with necessary, practical, everyday tools
- Turning past reframed pain into powerful, present-day “go-to’s”
She works with individuals, couples, families, and clients of all ages—children, teens, adults, and seniors—who are navigating depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, chronic pain or illness, and relationship or marital challenges.
Stacey Mendelson
High-Conflict Divorce Coach and Strategist partner
Stacey Mendelson is a certified Divorce and Family Court Strategist and the founder of LifeLine Coaching.
As the bridge between therapist and lawyer, she supports KG & Associates clients through the complexities of high-conflict divorce.
Stacey offers clear and effective strategic guidance, helping clients plan ahead, stay emotionally grounded, and prepare fully for court.
Her work empowers clients to feel informed, confident, and capable during one of life’s most challenging experiences.
KG Accountable Therapy™ Therapeutic Approaches
The KG Accountable Therapy™ method integrates evidence‑based approaches with personalized, compassionate guidance to help you understand your patterns, break them effectively, and move toward meaningful, lasting change.
Self-Care Accountability Program
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) -Individual, Couple, Family
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Strategies
IMAGO Couples Therapy
Trauma-Informed & Trauma-Focused Therapy
Relapse Prevention Planning Programs for Addictions
Specialized Betrayal, Grief Tools
Chronic Illness & Chronic Pain Recovery Programs
Frequently asked questions
A focused, intensive hour that identifies your struggles and patterns, reviews the relevant history and provides a clear explanation and treatment plan. A more comprehensive multi-session assessment pathway is available for families facing particularly complex issues.
At the end of your first appointment, I review the approaches that best fit your needs, how they address your needs, and the recommended number of ‘active therapy’ sessions.
Most clients finish the process with the tools they need for sustained recovery and growth. I offer an open-door policy for check-ins — biweekly, monthly, or as needed.
In high-risk situations, I may recommend weekly or twice-weekly sessions to ensure safety and to provide immediate support planning. Otherwise, clients choose a weekly or biweekly schedule for optimal momentum in the work.
No. You will receive all available morning, afternoon, evening, and weekend time slots at the end of your assessment to begin immediately, or a later start if preferred.
Appointments can be rescheduled or cancelled with 48 hours’ notice.
Accordion Content
You always have the first option to work with me.
Associates trained directly in the KG Accountable Therapy™ method are also available at reduced fees and alternative times.
We partner with a trusted psychiatric team for assessments (including general mental health, or specialized ASD, ADHD), typically available within 4 weeks of registration in the program. Your therapist will attend the assessment with you to ensure continuity of care.
Absolutely. KG & Associates is an inclusive, affirming practice. My job is to understand who you are, what shaped you, and how to help you reach the growth you’re seeking.
Yes. All programs and tools are available in neurotypical and in neurodivergent-friendly formats.
Yes. A signature part of the KG method includes 3-part collaborative parent/child sessions that ensure alignment between home, school, and therapy.
Clients tell us they value the honest, compassionate, direct guidance that motivates real and meaningful change.
"Your approach should be called 'Interrupting with Love’… because if I could have figured it out myself, with the support of my friends and family, I would have by now."
Karen Goslin, MSW RSW
Psychotherapist
Registered Social Worker
Launching Karen Goslin's book | Yellow Paint: Learning to Live Again
What if you are missing out on key opportunities to make your life better?
Now, Karen is bringing her experience to a wider audience as an author and speaker with her debut book, Yellow Paint: Learning to Live Again.
What if you are missing opportunities to make your life better?
Yellow Paint: Learning to Live Again is a powerful story of resilience, transformation, and embracing life’s invitations to grow. Karen’s writing helps readers recognize meaning, take action, and move toward the life they are meant to live.