Lisa Gallagher Kratz

Lisa Gallagher Kratz serves as an Associate Faculty/Instructor at City University of Seattle's Victoria campus, where she teaches counselling courses while maintaining an active private practice and pursuing doctoral studies in Counselling Education and Supervision.

Her professional qualifications include:

• Master of Counselling (City University of Seattle, Victoria campus)
• Registered Clinical Counsellor certification
• Canadian Certified Counsellor designation

Her clinical and research expertise focuses on grief processing—including ambiguous loss—couples and intimate relationship dynamics, substance use interventions, brief therapeutic modalities, geriatric counselling, group therapy techniques, and supervision frameworks. She implements a teaching philosophy centered on the principle "how I do anything is how I do everything," prioritizing authentic connection through honesty, humor, kindness, and vulnerability to mirror the therapeutic alliance essential in counselling practice.

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