About Katarina
Dr. Katarina Thomas is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders.
Dr. Thomas also supports people facing relationship and family concerns, career strain, addictions, grief, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem. Her approach is straightforward and warm.
She creates space for clients to speak openly about difficult feelings without fear of judgment.
How Katarina works
Sessions aim to identify practical ways to cope, build confidence, and move toward clearer choices. Dr. Thomas uses several psychotherapy styles to match what each person needs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps uncover patterns of thinking that keep problems going and offers tools to change them. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding so people feel heard and respected. Existential Therapy looks at meaning, values, and personal responsibility when life feels uncertain.
She has worked with people through trauma, post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, and compassion fatigue. Other areas of focus include attachment and abandonment concerns, commitment and control issues, family of origin questions, and challenges tied to veteran or first responder experiences. Dr.
Thomas also assists with practical life transitions such as divorce and separation, work stress, and coping with loss. She supports people managing eating or sleeping problems, anger, and sexual or intimacy-related worries. Her aim is to help clients find clearer direction and stronger coping skills.
Therapy sessions are offered in English and provided through online formats so that people can fit care into busy lives. The process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling to suit client needs.
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What Katarina works with
The areas below are the ones Katarina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Dr. Thomas Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Dr. Thomas draws on Client-Centered Therapy to help people feel listened to and respected; sessions focus on empathetic listening and reflecting what matters most to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small experiments or new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Existential Therapy examines life choices, values, and meaning when someone feels stuck or uncertain.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change as progress is made or concerns shift, and choices are reviewed together along the way.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support ongoing processing between sessions or fit into a busy day. These options make it easier to schedule care and keep continuity when life is demanding.
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