About Katrina
Katrina Watson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who creates an affirming, supportive space for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, or the effects of trauma and abuse. Katrina approaches therapy with warmth and straightforward communication.
Background and approach
Sessions are calm, down-to-earth, and focused on practical steps toward feeling better. Katrina works with people exploring sexuality and LGBT issues and helps those wrestling with relationship concerns.
She also supports people dealing with panic attacks, social anxiety, attachment challenges, and feelings of isolation or shame. The first conversations focus on what matters most to each person and what they hope to change.
With six years of clinical experience, Katrina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and trauma-informed care. Sessions often blend short-term skills for managing intense moments with deeper work on how past experiences shape current relationships and self-worth.
Katrina aims to build trust through steady, empathetic listening and clear feedback. Therapy with Katrina balances practical tools and emotional processing.
She helps people improve communication, set boundaries, and work through guilt, forgiveness, and control issues. When appropriate, therapy can include approaches that address post-traumatic stress and healing from abusive experiences.
Katrina’s style is collaborative and accepting. She invites clients to bring honesty about their goals and life circumstances, and she adjusts pacing and techniques to fit each person.
Sessions are offered in English and take place via multiple online formats for convenience.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Katrina uses trauma-informed care to recognize how past experiences affect present feelings and relationships. This approach focuses on safety, pacing, and understanding triggers so people can move through distress at a manageable rate.She also draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that teach concrete skills for managing anxiety, panic attacks, and difficult emotions. These methods often include grounding exercises, emotion regulation strategies, and communication practice to help in everyday situations.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Katrina will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and life context and together decide which techniques to try and when to shift focus. The plan evolves as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging lets people check in between live sessions or use brief written check-ins. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English