About Ekaterina
Ekaterina V Shkurkin is a licensed clinical social worker with forty years of professional experience. She is licensed in California as an LCSW and in Washington as an LICSW. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship concerns, grief, and major life changes.
Her approach centers on spotting strengths and honoring each person's ability to make choices. She uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address symptoms and daily challenges. Sessions are paced gently and focused on skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Ekaterina supports people through transitions like loss, caregiving strain, and job changes. She also works with concerns such as codependency, blended family issues, substance use, seasonal affective disorder, and workplace stress. She pays attention to multicultural concerns and issues that affect women.
Therapy with her often involves talking through current problems, identifying realistic steps, and practicing new ways of coping. She encourages self-compassion and helps clients explore life purpose, money and financial worries, guilt, and forgiveness. Her style is steady and respectful, aiming to build on what already works.
She invites people to take a first step while recognizing that change can take time. Ekaterina also accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care
Ekaterina uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can use right away. One common approach emphasizes identifying and building on existing strengths while teaching stress management and coping strategies to reduce anxiety and handle daily pressure. Another approach centers on working through loss, grief, and life transitions with step-by-step methods that help people process feelings and make concrete plans for the future.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, comfort level, and the problems they want to solve. Together they will try methods, adjust as needed, and prioritize what feels most helpful.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face connection when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or the camera feels like too much. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These formats provide flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel while still receiving consistent therapeutic care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California, Washington
- Languages
- English
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