About Katherine
Katherine Barton is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with twelve years of experience in California. She offers a warm, interactive style and focuses on making therapy feel understandable and approachable.
Background and approach
She aims to support people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing relationship and parenting challenges. Her approach blends attachment work with client-centered listening.
That means she pays attention to how past connections influence present struggles and centers each session on the person in front of her. Sessions are practical and paced to match what the client needs that week.
Katherine also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She pairs that with solution-focused tools to set small, achievable goals between sessions.
This mix can help with depression, anxiety, compulsive behaviors, and compassion fatigue. She has additional experience supporting people navigating adoption and foster care histories, codependency, dissociation, obsessive-compulsive concerns, personality-related patterns, and self-harm thoughts.
Katherine has worked with issues that involve grief, addictions, somatization, and seasonal mood changes. Katherine structures sessions so people leave with clear steps to try on their own.
She listens first, helps name the problem, and then collaborates on a plan that fits daily life. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Online approaches that focus on connection and change
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in their close relationships and build more supported ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities, offering empathic listening and support so clients can find their own answers and move at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.Katherine treats choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She listens to your needs and goals and will try methods that fit your situation. Together you decide what helps most and adjust plans as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and working through exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Text and live chat work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter interaction fits your schedule. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English