About Katarina
Dr. Katarina Thomas is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress along with relationship and family concerns.
She aims to make starting therapy straightforward and approachable for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She keeps sessions open and nonjudgmental so people can name their worries. She listens for the practical problems behind strong emotions.
Then she works with each person to set small, manageable goals that fit their life.
Background and approach
Her style blends a client-centered way of listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches. She helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce worry and improve mood. She also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning when life feels uncertain.
Dr. Thomas commonly supports people facing grief, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, panic, and challenges tied to work or caregiving roles. Other areas she addresses include addiction, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and compassion fatigue.
Sessions can address deeper attachment or abandonment wounds, commitment and control issues, and family of origin patterns. She also works with people navigating divorce, military-related concerns, non-monogamous relationships, and post-traumatic stress. People meet with her by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled based on availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on empathic listening and helping people name their feelings. In online sessions this means the therapist creates a calm space to be heard and reflects back what matters most to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear exercises and experiments. Online CBT often uses brief worksheets, thought records, and behavior tasks that can be reviewed together during a video call or in messages.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and what feels helpful. Together they decide whether to emphasize listening and exploration, practical CBT tools, or life meaning and values, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging works well for short check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when a quick strategy is needed between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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