About Katherine
Dr. Katherine Phillips is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 12 years of clinical experience and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping someone feel steadier and more capable in daily life. She works with people facing depression, relationship struggles, and problems with addiction. She also helps those dealing with trauma, grief, eating concerns, and the strain of big life changes.
Background and approach
First responder issues are a particular area of focus within her practice. In sessions she treats each person as the expert on their own life. She listens for strengths and builds on what is already working.
Conversations are geared toward clear goals and manageable changes rather than complex theory. Dr. Phillips favors approaches grounded in evidence and adapts them to each person’s needs.
That might look like learning new coping skills, practicing ways to reduce day-to-day stress, or changing behaviors that keep problems going. She aims to make therapy useful and directly applicable between sessions. Her practice offers a mix of session formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and comfort level.
People find her approach helpful when they want steady, practical support while working through anxiety, relationship concerns, or life transitions.
Online approaches and how they fit your life
Dr. Phillips uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and behavior change. One common approach helps people learn practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress, such as breathing techniques, activity planning, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. Another approach concentrates on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce depression and worry.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will review goals, preferences, and daily routines with each person and suggest techniques that match those needs. Treatment is collaborative and can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication styles. Video sessions allow a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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