About Kathleen
Kathleen Grisez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 30 years of experience. She focuses on making therapy approachable for people who feel stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed. Kathleen speaks plain language and helps people take the first steps toward change.
Her work centers on listening to each person's story and building on their existing strengths. She offers a calm space for talking about anxiety, depression, trauma, and issues related to intimacy and LGBT concerns.
Background and approach
Kathleen aims to help clients feel understood and to find practical ways to manage day-to-day stress. She also supports people facing problems like abandonment, attachment struggles, body image worries, and codependency. Communication difficulties, fertility and family stress, and feelings of emptiness or isolation are other areas she addresses.
Kathleen helps clients sort through relationship pain such as infidelity, divorce, or separation. Sessions tend to focus on clear, usable steps clients can try between meetings. Kathleen believes small changes add up and that people already carry resources they can use.
She encourages curiosity about patterns and gentle experimentation with new ways of coping. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Kathleen acknowledges that first step. She works at a steady pace and partners with clients to set realistic goals.
Her style is straightforward, compassionate, and focused on helping people rebuild a sense of control and connection.
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Many therapists use evidence-based techniques to address symptoms of anxiety and depression. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce worry and avoidance; this helps people notice what works in daily life. Another useful method looks at attachment and relationship patterns, helping clients understand how past hurts shape current reactions and how to try new ways of connecting.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest ways to test what fits best. This means adjusting techniques over time based on what helps you feel more in control and less overwhelmed.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different routines and needs. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation when schedules align. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief, ongoing contact and can work well for tracking progress between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life while still working toward improvement.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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