About Kathleen
Kathleen Jansen helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and depression. She works with clients who are coping with major life changes and those facing issues like attachment wounds, body image concerns, caregiver stress, and loneliness.
Background and approach
Kathleen is an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - practicing in California and draws on 11 years of clinical experience. Kathleen takes a collaborative, down-to-earth approach.
The first visit is a getting-to-know-you session so she can learn about immediate concerns and personal history. She listens carefully, asks direct questions, and helps set small, manageable goals to move forward.
Her work focuses on practical skills and real-life changes. Sessions may include talking through communication problems, addressing control issues, and building tools for managing strong emotions or impulsive behaviors.
She also helps people navigate divorce or separation, forgiveness, guilt, and issues around money and life purpose. Clients can expect honest feedback paired with supportive guidance.
Kathleen aims to make strategies feasible and maintainable, so new habits can stick. She emphasizes collaboration, tailoring the pace and methods to each person’s needs.
Outside of practice she enjoys reading, playing video games, and spending time with her family. That blend of everyday life and clinical experience informs her practical, relatable style when helping people work toward clearer goals and better coping skills.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to address trauma and mood concerns in everyday language. One approach focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching coping skills and problem-solving steps. Another method centers on building emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills to manage intense feelings and impulsive reactions, useful for relationship strain and overwhelming emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration may mean trying a few methods and adjusting the plan as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily rhythms.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English