Katherine Weller , LMFT

Katherine Weller is a licensed marriage and family therapist with thirty years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting and family concerns, career and life changes, and issues around intimacy and trauma. Katherine focuses on practical steps clients can use day-to-day to feel steadier and more capable.

She emphasizes listening first, then working together to find clear goals. Sessions are conversational and direct. She offers straightforward suggestions and homework people can try between visits to test what helps.

Katherine draws on a systems-informed perspective that looks at how early family life, current relationships, work, school and community shape a person's well-being. That view helps uncover patterns that keep problems repeating, and it points to small changes that can make daily life easier.

Over a long career she has worked in hospitals, public health settings, military bases, agencies, and small practices in both rural and urban communities. Those varied roles shaped her appreciation for different life contexts and pragmatic solutions that fit real schedules and constraints.

Her approach pulls from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, DBT skills, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques when useful. Katherine works from California and holds a Washington and California LMFT credential. Sessions are offered in English and available online through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.

Practical approaches for online therapy and change

Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, understanding relationship and follows the client's concerns. It helps when someone needs a listening space to clarify feelings and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches concrete strategies to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationship skills.

Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Katherine will discuss options with each person and tailor methods to their goals, preferences, and life context. This is a collaborative process where techniques are tried and adjusted based on what helps.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and reading cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat or text messaging can support brief updates, coaching between sessions, or people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.