About Katherine
Katherine Stratton is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California. She brings five years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Katherine aims to make beginning therapy manageable and clear for those who are nervous about taking the first step. She uses straightforward, compassionate care to help people untangle difficult feelings and patterns.
Sessions are practical and paced to match each person’s needs. Katherine pays close attention to family of origin issues, codependency, control issues, dissociation, and related concerns that often keep people stuck.
She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care experiences, aging and geriatric issues, first responder concerns, and challenges like hoarding, panic attacks, and somatization. Katherine works with mood disorders, isolation and loneliness, guilt and shame, and the work of forgiveness and self-love.
Her experience includes helping people notice how life stress builds into larger problems over time. Therapy with Katherine emphasizes learning simple skills and making small changes that add up.
She talks through practical steps, offers tools for managing symptoms, and helps people rebuild their sense of control. Appointments are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative process. Katherine helps people set gentle goals and adjusts her approach as needed to match what each person finds most helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Katherine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work. One approach she uses helps people process traumatic memories and the feelings that stay tied to them; this method aims to reduce the hold those memories have and support emotional regulation. Another approach focuses on coping skills for anxiety and depression, teaching breathing, grounding, and behavioral steps that reduce intense symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Katherine works with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. She explains options in plain language and checks in regularly to make sure the plan fits the person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility and options that fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or on days when being on camera is tiring. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or do shorter, focused work without scheduling a full call. These choices make it easier to continue care around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities while keeping progress steady.
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- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English