About Katharine
Dr. Katharine Clarke uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage stress and anxiety. She is a California psychologist with 38 years of experience.
Her style is straightforward and respectful, and she focuses on building skills that make everyday life easier. She helps people coping with addictions and supports those working through relationship and family struggles. Grief, caregiver strain, and chronic illness are also areas she commonly addresses.
Dr. Clarke focuses on communication, setting boundaries, and reducing impulsive or self-defeating patterns.
Background and approach
Her approach treats the person, not just the problem. Sessions are a place to talk through what matters, identify doable steps, and practice new ways of coping. She treats attachment and family-of-origin patterns as pieces of current difficulties rather than fixed labels.
Over nearly four decades she has worked with a wide range of stress-related and behavioral concerns. That experience shapes how she helps people untangle long-standing patterns and handle immediate pressures. She emphasizes small changes that add up to better daily functioning.
People can expect clear explanations, focused strategies, and steady support while they try new habits. Dr. Clarke encourages a collaborative pace so goals are realistic and fit each person’s life.
Her work is aimed at improving coping, relationships, and emotional balance.
Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Anxiety Care
Dr. Clarke uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skill building and clearer thinking. One common approach she uses teaches concrete coping skills for stress and anxiety, such as grounding strategies, breathing work, and step-by-step plans to reduce avoidance. These tools help people manage everyday symptoms and regain a sense of control.Another approach emphasizes relationship and family patterns to understand how past attachments affect current behavior. This work helps people spot repeated interaction cycles, improve communication, and set healthier boundaries with others. For addictions and impulsivity, she integrates behavioral strategies that target triggers and create safer routines.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify priorities, try specific techniques, and adjust methods based on how things are going. Goals and pacing are set together so the plan fits the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow live conversation and visual cues while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain regular work on anxiety and related concerns while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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