Dr. Katarina Thomas, LMFT

Dr. Katarina Thomas is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions. Her manner is straightforward and steady, aimed at people who want clear steps forward.

Her sessions center on open conversation and active listening. She creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be named and talked through without judgment. She aims to help clients build confidence and motivation one step at a time.

Dr. Thomas uses goal-focused tools to address patterns that cause distress. That can include examining thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, and trying new ways of responding. She blends structured techniques with attention to each person’s experience.

She also draws on client-centered work to follow what matters most to the person in the room. This means focusing on the client’s own priorities and pacing change to fit their life. Existential perspectives are used when people are wrestling with meaning, values, or big life choices.

Common concerns she helps with include grief, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, addictions, intimacy issues, and problems tied to family of origin. She has additional focus areas such as attachment and abandonment concerns, commitment and control issues, veteran and first responder matters, and non-monogamous relationship questions.

People who choose her often want a mix of practical tools and thoughtful conversation. She supports clients as they set achievable goals and practice new ways of coping between sessions.

How her approaches work online

Dr. Thomas uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and to test small, practical changes that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. She also uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the client, offering steady listening and support while the client names goals and values.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and style, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaboration keeps sessions focused and relevant to current needs.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for richer interaction and visual cues, phone calls can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat works for brief updates, scheduling, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.