Katherine (Katy) Robison, LMFT
Support for stress and family concerns
About Katherine
Katherine (Katy) Robison helps people manage stress, anxiety, family conflict, parenting challenges, and depression. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in California with five years of professional experience.
Background and approach
Katy aims to make the first step feel less daunting for people seeking change. Her approach is straightforward and conversational.
Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps that can be used between meetings. She encourages open discussion of thoughts and feelings without judgment so people can try new ways of coping.
Katy often uses ideas from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She works with clients on communication, problem solving, and reducing day-to-day anxiety.
These strategies are applied to family tensions, parenting stress, and mood concerns. She also pays attention to attachment patterns, codependency, and issues that come up in blended families.
Topics like guilt, forgiveness, isolation, and life transitions are common in her work. Katy has supported people through postpartum mood changes, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and seasonal mood shifts.
Katy offers sessions that aim to be practical and usable. She helps people set small, measurable steps and checks progress over time.
For those who prefer online options, she provides multiple formats to match different needs and schedules.
How Katy Uses CBT and Online Tools
Katy commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify patterns of thinking that increase stress or depression. CBT breaks problems into manageable steps and focuses on practical changes people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety and lift mood.Her style is collaborative. She works with clients to decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences. Together they test approaches, track progress, and adjust plans when something isn’t helping.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and role-play. Phone sessions can be a good choice when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging support ongoing check-ins, brief coaching, and gentle accountability between meetings. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English