About Katja
Katja Rapp is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, eating concerns, depression, and addiction. She also supports people with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She uses plain, collaborative care.
Katja believes people know their lives best and builds on existing strengths. Sessions focus on practical steps, skill-building, and understanding patterns that get in the way of change.
How Katja works
Over 14 years of practice she has worked with a wide range of concerns, including attachment struggles, abandonment, codependency, dissociation, and body image issues. She also addresses complex topics like domestic violence, blended family stress, and alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink when they are part of a client's story. Katja brings a steady, empowering presence to sessions.
She aims to make goals manageable and progress measurable. Therapy often includes learning new ways to communicate, cope with strong emotions, and rebuild a sense of control. Sessions are offered in English and German and are available online.
She accepts international clients and tailors the pace and tools to each person’s needs. A straightforward, respectful approach is used to help people move through loss, change, and difficult emotions.
What Katja works with
The areas below are the ones Katja selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English, German |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Katja draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on understanding patterns and building practical skills. One commonly used approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, then practice new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Another approach centers on processing trauma and its effects, helping people reduce intense reactions and regain more control over daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then tailor methods collaboratively rather than using a single fixed model.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing out thoughts helps. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people keep therapy consistent around work, travel, or caregiving responsibilities.
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