About Katherine
Katherine Eldean uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people move forward. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 20 years of experience.
Background and approach
Katherine listens for strengths and builds on what already works in a person's life. She aims for clear steps rather than long lists of jargon.
Her work focuses on stress, anxiety, and coping with addictions. She also supports people dealing with depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, and relationship struggles.
Katherine helps with grief, low self-esteem, intimacy concerns, and life transitions. She often addresses sleep and eating problems, anger, and career-related stress.
Attachment and relationship patterns are a key interest. Katherine draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand how past bonds affect current connections.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools to build practical skills for day-to-day life. Sessions are collaborative.
She treats each person as the expert on their story and helps set goals together. Katherine offers coaching-style check-ins when people want focused, short-term work as well as longer therapeutic support.
Her additional focus areas include caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, commitment and communication problems, dissociation, and challenges related to autism and Asperger syndrome. Katherine also addresses issues such as domestic violence, divorce and separation, and coping with disasters.
Therapy can include strategies from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and client-centered methods to build emotion regulation and stronger relationships. Katherine works in ways that match each person's goals and practical needs.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then identify values-based actions to move forward. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people shift patterns that cause repeated conflict or disconnection. It can be useful for intimacy issues, relationship struggles, and attachment wounds.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katherine will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match goals and preferences. Sessions often mix methods so practical skills and deeper exploration happen together, and the plan can be adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people read facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or take place when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are convenient for quick updates, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage appointments across time zones, and keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English