About Katherine
Katherine Stratton is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with five years of clinical practice in California. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and compassion fatigue. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at making hard conversations feel manageable.
She offers conversational, straightforward guidance so people can move forward one step at a time. She helps people untangle painful memories and the emotions they bring up.
Background and approach
Sessions often include paced talk therapy to identify patterns and practical strategies to reduce panic, manage mood shifts, and ease somatic symptoms. Katherine pays attention to how past family experiences and control issues show up in daily life and works with clients to develop healthier responses. People who reach out can expect an approach grounded in compassion and acceptance.
Katherine also uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and applies methods that support processing trauma when needed. Her approach aims to reduce shame, address codependency and isolation, and rebuild a sense of self-worth. Katherine brings additional focus to issues tied to adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, first responder stress, and dissociation.
She helps people work through guilt, forgiveness, and hoarding behaviors with steady guidance and clear steps. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through phone, video calls, live chat, or text-based messaging. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
How Katherine Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Katherine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people process distress and regain control. One common approach she draws on focuses on paced processing of trauma and upsetting memories; it helps reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions and can lessen dissociation or flashbacks. Another approach centers on skills for managing anxiety and panic - teaching breathing, grounding, and behavioral steps that reduce avoidance and reclaim everyday functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Katherine collaborates with each person to decide which techniques match their goals and needs, and she adjusts methods as progress is made. The plan is shaped by the client's preferences and practical concerns so therapy feels useful from week to week.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make help more flexible. Video calls let the therapist and client read facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break at work. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing processing between sessions, or when shorter, written exchanges feel most helpful. These options aim to make therapy fit daily life and reduce barriers to getting support.
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- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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