About Katrina
Katrina Carter offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling stuck by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, or major life changes. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT, practicing in California and works to make the first steps less overwhelming.
Background and approach
Katrina keeps sessions focused and practical so clients can start seeing small changes quickly. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's situation.
In sessions she invites honest talk about feelings, relationships, and patterns that cause pain. Conversations are plainspoken and oriented toward real-life problems like motivation, communication struggles, or coping after a loss.
Katrina has five years of clinical experience and aims to build a predictable routine in therapy. That often means setting short-term goals, trying specific skills between sessions, and checking progress regularly.
She pays particular attention to issues around abandonment, attachment, and codependency when those patterns come up. Clients can expect help with mood concerns such as depression, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and disruptive mood symptoms like DMDD when relevant.
Katrina also supports people working through guilt, shame, emptiness, and questions of life purpose. She keeps the tone respectful and direct while offering concrete steps clients can practice.
Her approach balances empathy with measurable tools. Katrina helps people identify what they want to change, then works with them to make those changes manageable.
She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How Katrina’s approaches work online
Many clients benefit from clear, evidence-based techniques that teach skills for everyday life. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood; it helps with stress, depression, and obsessive thinking. Another approach centers on understanding attachment and relationship patterns, which helps people improve communication and handle feelings of abandonment or isolation.Katrina sees finding the right approach as a team effort. She works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and current situation. That collaborative process includes trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan over time.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is required. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing contact and quick reflections between scheduled meetings. These formats aim to make consistent care easier to fit into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English