Kathryn (Katie) Mason

Kathryn (Katie) Mason is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, grief, and addiction-related concerns. She also supports people dealing with issues like body image, attachment wounds, parenting strain, and challenges related to narcissism. Katie works in a calm, nonjudgmental way to make it easier to speak about difficult feelings.

Her style centers on listening first and tailoring steps to each person. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical skills you can try between meetings. Katie draws on talk-based work and structured methods to reduce distress and help clients make steady change.

She uses attachment-based approaches to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That work can help with abandonment, intimacy, and communication problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to notice unhelpful thinking and test different ways of coping when anxiety or panic arise.

For people with intense memories or trauma symptoms, Katie incorporates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, known as EMDR, alongside other therapies to reduce the power of overwhelming memories. She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.

Katie invites questions and makes treatment a collaborative effort. She practices in California and offers in-session support in English. To begin, complete the site matching steps and schedule a time that fits your needs.

How Katie Uses Therapeutic Methods Online

Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses. In brief, it looks at how people learned to ask for help or shut down, and it helps build new ways to relate that feel safer and more reliable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, panic, negative self-image, and mood problems because it trains specific skills to change thinking and reactions. EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is a structured approach for reducing the intensity of traumatic memories and the feelings they trigger.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katie will talk with each person about their needs and goals and then suggest which methods to try. Decisions about techniques and pacing are made together, and adjustments are expected as progress unfolds.

The therapist's biography does not list explicit session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, cut travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people try different ways of working from their regular day until they find what helps most.