About Katherine
Katherine Eldean is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those facing addictions, relationship struggles, trauma, and depression. Katherine believes people already hold important strengths and can use those strengths to move toward better days.
Her approach centers on practical, straightforward conversations. Sessions focus on what feels most pressing and useful in daily life.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns in thinking, feeling, and behavior, then helps clients try small changes that build new habits. Katherine draws from several evidence-informed methods, including acceptance and commitment approaches, attachment-based ideas, and cognitive behavioral techniques. She tailors tools to the problem at hand, whether that is panic, low mood, or trouble with relationships and intimacy.
Over two decades she has worked with people facing grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, eating and sleeping problems, and life transitions. She also helps with anger, self-esteem, career questions, and ADHD-related concerns. Katherine offers a calm, steady presence while helping clients set clear, achievable goals.
Her work is collaborative and goal-oriented. She helps clients break hard problems into manageable steps and checks in about what’s working. The aim is practical change that fits each person’s life and values.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small, value-driven steps even when difficult thoughts and feelings are present. This approach can help with anxiety, avoidance, and major life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns and can help when intimacy, abandonment, or trust issues are central.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that seem to fit, and check in about what helps. That collaborative process shapes whether sessions emphasize skills practice, values work, or exploring relationship patterns.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat can work for short check-ins or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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