About Katherine
Katherine Eldean uses collaborative, evidence-informed approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship challenges. She is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of experience. Katherine speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
Her work blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive and skills-based techniques. She helps people notice what matters, build coping skills, and make choices that match their values.
How Katherine works
Sessions focus on practical steps that can be tried between meetings as well as discussing what contributes to a problem. Katherine also draws on attachment-based thinking to look at how early connections shape reactions today. This can be useful for intimacy struggles, abandonment concerns, and communication problems.
She pairs that perspective with client-centered listening to keep the person's goals in view. She has long experience supporting people through trauma, domestic violence, and major life transitions. That background includes work with mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, and with complicated issues like dissociation and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.
Katherine helps people develop structure, safety, and steady routines when symptoms interfere with daily life. Practical skills for managing sleep, eating, anger, and caregiver stress are common parts of her work. She also supports people dealing with chronic pain, codependency, or job-related compassion fatigue.
Katherine aims to help clients make small changes that add up to clearer thinking and more choice in their lives.
Katherine lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Katherine works with
The areas below are the ones Katherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even when emotions are strong. It is commonly used for anxiety, stress, and life changes and focuses on small, workable steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete tools for managing mood, sleep, and eating patterns. It is often helpful for depression, bipolar symptom management, and coping skills work. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationships and how they shape current reactions and closeness; it can be useful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katherine will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. She often blends techniques so sessions match what a person wants to address and what feels doable in everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging or chat suits ongoing coaching-style support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around parenting, work, or caregiving responsibilities while still focusing on practical change.
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