About Katherine
Dr. Katherine Walker helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, mood disorders, addiction, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and ADHD. She has worked in mental health for more than three decades and brings steady, practical support to everyday problems and deeper struggles.
She spent over 30 years with a large health care organization where she combined clinical work and management. That time included supporting people with serious mental illness such as bipolar disorder as well as those coping with divorce, loss, and job stress.
Background and approach
Her background includes an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and graduate training at the California School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Walker believes there is strength in each person and that real change comes from the work a client does in therapy.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and focused. Clients can expect a warm, respectful tone and clear suggestions they can try between meetings. Her approach draws on psychodynamic ideas about past patterns, attachment-based thinking about relationships, and practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
She adapts these methods to each person's goals rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Many people choose her when they want calm guidance, steady experience, and help sorting complex feelings. She practices in California as CA Psychologist 15553 and offers sessions using a variety of online formats.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Walker often blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy to provide practical support and active problem solving. Client-centered work focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people find their own answers, which is useful for building trust and clarifying goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and offers concrete skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety, low mood, or difficulties with attention.She treats approach selection as a collaborative process. Together with each person she reviews goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then tailors techniques to match those needs. That way sessions stay focused on useful steps instead of fitting a single method to everyone.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well when visual connection helps the conversation, while phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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