Katrina Gow

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Katrina Gow is a counsellor and psychotherapist who works with parents and caregivers navigating some of the most demanding and complex seasons of family life.

 

Her focus is the parent. Drawing on a background that spans nursing, occupational health, shiatsu, and psychotherapy, Katrina brings a distinctively holistic and systems-informed perspective that recognises how stress, capacity, relationships, and environment all shape what is and isn't working for a family. She is skilled at finding a different angle on a stuck problem, and at helping parents build a toolkit that goes beyond what their own experience has given them so far.

 

Katrina works alongside parents and caregivers, not directly with children, to develop practical, compassionate approaches that reduce overwhelm and help families find a way forward. She has particular knowledge of school attendance challenges, anxiety, and the intersection of child distress and parental burnout, and currently serves as an advisor on a Deakin University research project focused on school attendance.

 

She also writes regularly on parent wellbeing and capacity for the Victorian Parents Council.