About Kathryn
Kathryn (Katie) Mason is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, depression, and major life changes. Katie also works with concerns like addiction, grief, body image, and mood disorders.
Katie aims for a calm, direct style in sessions. She focuses on honest conversation and practical steps. Sessions are a place to talk through upsetting thoughts and practice new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Her methods include attachment-based work to look at how relationships shape feelings. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. She also incorporates EMDR for people processing traumatic memories.
With 17 years of experience in California, Katie brings steady clinical background to her practice. She describes therapy as a partnership where goals are set together and progress is reviewed regularly. Katie works in English and offers multiple online formats.
She encourages people to start with a short intake to match goals to an approach. Many clients appreciate having clear steps and tools to use between sessions. If someone is feeling overwhelmed by panic, relationship pain, or changes at work or home, Katie helps break problems into manageable parts.
She supports building new habits, improving communication, and addressing painful memories at a pace that feels right.
Online approaches for anxiety, trauma, and relationships
Katie commonly blends attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Attachment-based therapy looks at how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions, which can help with intimacy, abandonment, and communication issues. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katie treats therapy as a collaboration - she will talk with clients about goals and try methods that fit their needs and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full session and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a check-in is needed without video. Live chat and text messaging offer brief support between sessions and are helpful for quick check-ins, homework tracking, or when writing feels clearer than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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