About Katherine
Katherine Weller is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting concerns. She supports people facing trauma, intimacy-related issues, career and life transitions, and those struggling with self-esteem or compassion fatigue. Katherine speaks English and practices in California as an LMFT.
Her approach begins with attentive listening to understand each person’s life context. She looks at early family experiences, current relationships, work and community factors that shape how someone sees themselves.
How Katherine works
Katherine aims to build a trusting connection and uses that relationship to guide practical steps forward. She draws from several therapy models, including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused ideas. Those tools are used to help people notice unhelpful patterns, develop coping skills, and set achievable goals.
Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual. Katherine’s background includes work in hospitals, public health, military bases, agencies, and small practices in both rural and urban settings. That variety shaped her respect for different life stories and the unique challenges people bring.
She combines that experience with a straightforward, compassionate style. In sessions she listens, reflects, and gently challenges to encourage change. The work is collaborative and action-oriented when appropriate.
Her goal is to foster hope, stronger self-regard, and practical ways to move toward well-being and personal agency.
Katherine lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps people clarify their needs and values so they can make choices that feel right.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and build healthier behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers specific skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It supports people who struggle with emotional overwhelm, relationship conflict, or impulsive behaviors.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the problem at hand to decide which methods to try. Sessions may combine elements from different models so the work fits the person’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when shorter, written exchanges are easier to manage.
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