Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
How Katherine works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Katherine
Katherine Eldean is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of practice in California. She uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people handle stress, anxiety, anger, and the effects of trauma. Katherine centers sessions on each person’s strengths and choices while offering clear tools for day-to-day life.
Her work often focuses on coping with addictions, depression, bipolar disorder, and relationship difficulties. She also helps people manage grief, sleep and eating struggles, caregiver stress, and the life disruptions that follow divorce or separation.
Background and approach
Katherine pays attention to attachment and abandonment wounds that often underlie repeated patterns. Clients can expect a direct and compassionate style. Sessions are collaborative and grounded in real skills - like behavior changes, emotion regulation, and values-based action - rather than abstract talk.
Katherine draws from methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to tailor practical steps for everyday problems. She also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen how people relate to themselves and others. That combination helps when intimacy, communication, or codependency are part of the struggle.
Katherine aims to make therapy useful from the first few sessions. Over two decades she has supported people through career stress, chronic illness, parenting strain, and disruptive mood challenges. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Katherine works online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules.
What Katherine works with
Everything Katherine lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Katherine's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Katherine lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Online approaches that build skills and connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, anger, and life transitions when moving toward what matters feels hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with step-by-step tools like activity planning and thought records. It is often used for depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they show up now, helping people improve communication and feel safer in close connections.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Katherine works together with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals, preferences, and the issues at hand. That collaborative plan can change as progress is made or new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for full conversations and teaching skills, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging can support quick reflections between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
Questions people ask about Katherine
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, and anger. She also supports people dealing with addictions, grief, relationship struggles, and bipolar disorder.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The approach is collaborative and practical. Sessions focus on developing skills, changing unhelpful patterns, and connecting choices to personal values.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Katherine has 20 years of professional experience working with a wide range of behavioral health challenges. That background informs a pragmatic, skills-focused practice.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - in California.
Which languages and international options are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session based on therapist availability.