About Kathy
Dr. Kathy Greathouse is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings eight years of clinical experience to people seeking help with stress, anxiety, grief, mood concerns, and life transitions.
Her style mixes practical talk with calm, reflective practices to help clients move forward. Her sessions combine talk therapy with breathing and mindfulness practices when useful. She offers straightforward support for problems like depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, and compassion fatigue.
How Kathy works
Kathy also helps people with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She uses approaches drawn from attachment-based work and client-centered listening to build trusting conversations. Narrative methods help people make sense of difficult experiences, and existential ideas are used when questions about life purpose or midlife change arise.
Mindfulness tools are offered to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Every plan is shaped to the individual's needs and goals. Kathy pays attention to life context, parenting concerns, fertility and fatherhood issues, and aging or geriatric questions when they come up.
She listens for patterns such as codependency, control issues, shame, or abandonment wounds and helps clients find practical steps forward. Kathy aims to create steady, compassionate care that focuses on skills and insight. Sessions may include coaching elements for career or life changes and practical strategies for coping and relapse prevention.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person's readiness.
Kathy lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Kathy works with
The areas below are the ones Kathy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Kathy's Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect feelings and behavior. Online sessions use conversation and reflection to identify these patterns and try new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's perspective at the center of the work, with the therapist listening closely and following the client's lead to build insight and self-direction. Mindfulness Therapy teaches short practices for attention and breathing to reduce anxiety and improve sleep.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative step. Kathy will talk with each person about goals, history, and what feels most helpful. Together she and the client try methods and adjust the plan based on progress and preference.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and learning new practices. Phone sessions can be a lighter check-in or an alternative when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for brief coaching, check-ins, or skill reminders between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other daily routines.
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