About Katja
Katja Rapp is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and concerns around eating and addiction. She works with clients facing relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep problems, ADHD, and life transitions. Katja speaks English and German and practices in California.
With 14 years of clinical experience she focuses on practical support. She listens to each person’s story and helps them find strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to break problems into manageable steps and build skills for daily life. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Rather than telling clients what to do, she guides them to try different strategies and notice what works.
She offers coaching-style tools alongside therapeutic conversation to help with coping and decision making. Katja draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma, anxiety, and mood concerns. She pays attention to how attachment patterns, abandonment fears, and communication problems affect relationships and self-esteem.
She also helps people dealing with body image, sexual and kink-related concerns, and codependency. People come to her when life feels overwhelming or stuck. Katja supports work on anger, career stress, compassion fatigue, and bipolar-related challenges by helping clients set realistic goals and practice new behaviors.
Her approach aims to make progress feel achievable and relevant to everyday life.
Using evidence-based techniques in online sessions
Katja uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping. One common approach emphasizes skills training to manage anxiety and stress through breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to feared situations. These tools help reduce avoidance and build tolerance for uncomfortable feelings. Another approach centers on addressing trauma-related reactions by helping people make sense of difficult experiences and learn coping strategies for flashbacks, dissociation, or intrusive memories. This work often combines stabilization skills with gradual processing at a pace the client can handle. Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist and client review symptoms, goals, and preferences and then try methods that match those needs. Together they monitor what helps and adjust the plan based on progress and feedback. Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face across distances. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or an option when typing feels easier than talking. These formats make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, German
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