Full Bio
Dr. Katelyn Bryant (Ph.D., C.Psych) is an experienced, compassionate, and highly trained Psychologist with a deep commitment to understanding and supporting complex children, youth, and their caregivers. She also works with adults with neurodevelopmental and/or mental health needs.
After receiving her 4-year Honours undergraduate degree in Psychology and Community Development at Western (Brescia University College), she obtained her Masters and PhD from the University of Toronto (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education). Her 7 years of graduate training in School and Clinical Child Psychology included 5 supervised practica (at sites such as the TDSB, Surrey Place Centre and Lumenus) and 1 full-year residency at the Reach Out Centre for Kids. After obtaining her doctorate, she completed an additional year of supervised practice serving as a clinical supervisor at Western's Child and Youth Development Clinic and the consulting Psychologist for the adolescent developmental-behavioural inpatient service at CPRI. She then passed the required knowledge, ethics, and oral examinations and registered as a Psychologist in Ontario. Following this, she served as a Clinical Supervisor and then the Assistant Director of the Mary J. Wright Child and Youth Development Clinic, providing leadership within the Clinic, university and broader community. In her time at the Clinic, she has supervised over 50 MA and PhD students training to be Psychologists and received the Dr. Alan Leschied award for relationship-focused supervision of Residents within the Narwhal Psychology Consortium.
Dr. Bryant’s graduate education focused on neurodivergence- including learning disability, ADHD, Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and early emerging dysregulation (including anxiety, mood and behavioural challenges). Her main research expertise is in literacy development, screening, and intervention. She is published in Paediatrics and Child Health and her work has been featured in media outlets such as CBC News, the Toronto Star, Western News, and the Conversation. She maintains her connection to the research world by contributing to research and knowledge mobilization initiatives, attending and presenting at research conferences, serving as a dissertation examiner, and acting as an Ad Hoc reviewer for scientific journals including Pediatrics and the Canadian Journal of School Psychology.
Dr. Bryant prioritizes early assessment and intervention and parent support in her work with children and youth. She believes strongly in timely and sensitive response to parents' concerns about their children's learning, development, and mental health. She is specifically trained in parent/family work and centres this in service provision for children and youth. She has developed and led several parenting groups including Powerful Parenting Principles for children with behavioural challenges.
Dr. Bryant's work with parents led to an interest in working with adults. She is currently completing additional training and supervision to work with adults with a range of needs including ADHD, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, OCD, and trauma. Her strong knowledge of child and youth development informs her perspective on the essential role that neurodivergence, early experiences, and family relationships play in shaping adults' lives.
In addition to working directly with clients, Dr. Bryant has a background in community development and a long history of collaboratively developing and leading community-based initiatives. She is a committed interdisciplinary partner with a strong belief in the importance of systemic change. In 2008 she developed a girls leadership camp that ran at Western for over 15 years before closing in 2025. Recent projects have included a collaboration to increase availability and scope of interdisciplinary Autism services in partnership with TVCC, a partnership with developmental paediatricians at LHSC to increase access to Psychology assessment for kids with developmental disabilities, and a Psychology support initiative for Vanier's early intervention kindergarten program, for which she won the May Court Partnership Award.
Dr. Bryant is also an experienced educator who has delivered hundreds of lectures and workshops for families, undergraduate students, teacher candidates, MA and PhD students, and community professionals. She attained the Dean's Honour Roll for undergraduate teaching at Brescia University College and taught multiple graduate courses as an Assistant Professor (Limited Duties) at Western, receiving a Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award for her course on comprehensive psychological assessment.
Dr. Bryant believes that quality Psychological Services should be culturally safe/responsive, liberative, and accessible to all. She is a lifelong student of diversity who believes that thoughtful collaboration and consideration for people’s unique experiences and contexts is essential for insight and meaningful change.