About Katherine
Dr. Katherine Walker is a California psychologist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. She works with adults facing relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, and career transitions.
People seek her for mood disorders, ADHD, and compassion fatigue as well as intimacy and attachment concerns. She spent more than 30 years at a large health care organization as both a therapist and a manager. That career included treating people with serious mental illness and supporting those navigating major life changes.
Background and approach
Dr. Walker earned her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley and completed graduate study at the California School of Professional Psychology. She holds the credential CA Psychologist 15553.
Her approach centers on respect for each person’s strengths. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals while using talk-based methods to understand patterns that keep problems going. She believes progress comes from the client’s effort, guided by her support and direction.
Methods she commonly uses include attachment-based work to address relationship patterns and psychodynamic ideas to look at longstanding themes. She also applies cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior techniques when clients need tools for mood, anxiety, or impulsive behaviors. Sessions include conversation, skill practice, and homework when helpful.
Dr. Walker adapts pace and focus to match each person’s needs and life situation. Her long experience informs a steady, straightforward style that aims to help people make practical changes.
Therapy is offered in English to people located in California. Online formats are available for those who prefer video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions today and helps people change how they relate to partners and close others. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy and respect, giving people space to set the pace and topics while the therapist follows their lead and supports understanding. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and habit patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dr. Walker will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. The decision is collaborative and may change over time as needs shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, shorter coaching-style exchanges, or ongoing contact between scheduled sessions. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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