Katherine Eldean, LMFT

Katherine Eldean is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 20 years of professional experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression, and bipolar disorder. She also addresses family-of-origin concerns, grief, intimacy issues, and challenges such as ADHD and caregiver stress.

Katherine centers sessions on what each person brings to the room. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them build on existing strengths. Conversations focus on clear, practical steps rather than jargon. Sessions are direct and collaborative.

Her approach blends several strategies. She uses elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Attachment-based work helps people understand how early relationships shape current expectations and reactions.

Katherine also draws on Client-Centered methods to follow each person’s lead and on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing intense emotions. Those methods are applied to common life problems like sleep and eating concerns, intimacy struggles, and coping with big changes.

Clients who come for family-of-origin issues often want to change repeating patterns from childhood. Katherine helps people recognize those patterns and try new ways of relating. The work tends to be straightforward and focused on what can change now.

Approaches used in online sessions