About Katherine
Katherine Santana is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California. She has four years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief, and handle the everyday challenges of parenting and life changes. She focuses on building a calm, open space where clients can say what they’re feeling.
Conversations are direct and down-to-earth. She helps people name their concerns and try small, practical steps to feel steadier day to day.
Background and approach
Katherine often supports people dealing with attention and impulsivity challenges, caregiver strain, money-related stress, and control issues. Sessions aim to break worries into manageable pieces and develop doable coping strategies that fit each person’s life. Her approach centers on collaboration.
Clients and Katherine set goals together, try techniques in real life, and adjust plans based on what works. Progress is measured by how clients feel and what they can do differently, not by labels. She encourages parents who feel overwhelmed to bring the specific moments they struggle with into sessions.
Katherine offers practical ideas for handling parenting tough spots, grief, and transitions so people can regain more balance and self-compassion. To begin, she asks people to describe their current problem and what they hope to change. From there she and the client create a straightforward plan with clear next steps.
How practical approaches meet online therapy
Katherine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, usable tools. One approach emphasizes identifying thoughts that feed anxiety and testing them with small experiments to see what changes. This helps people reduce worry and gain confidence in everyday situations.Another approach targets coping skills for stress, grief, and life changes by breaking problems into smaller steps. Sessions work on concrete strategies like routines, behavioral changes, and short practices to manage strong emotions and impulsivity. These methods suit people who want techniques they can use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client discuss current needs, personal goals, and what feels doable. They try methods, review what helps, and adjust plans so the approach fits the person's life and preferences.
Online sessions are offered in multiple formats to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good option when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, progress notes, or when written reflection feels more natural. These formats provide flexibility for different schedules and communication styles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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