About Katja
Katja Rapp is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and ADHD-related struggles. She works with concerns around eating and body image, intimacy and relationship difficulties, and the emotional fallout of trauma and loss. Katja speaks English and German and practices from California.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She treats clients as the experts on their lives and focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s day-to-day routine.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at building skills, uncovering strengths, and reducing the patterns that keep people stuck. Katja brings 14 years of clinical experience to the work. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to individual needs rather than relying on one strict method.
The goal is to find what helps someone feel steadier and more able to manage symptoms. She is comfortable addressing complex issues such as attachment wounds, codependency, dissociation, and challenges connected to kink and alternative sex cultures. Katja also supports people dealing with career stress, compassion fatigue, and the strain of parenting or blended family situations.
Clients can expect clear conversation, practical tools, and a focus on small changes that add up. Katja aims to empower people to make decisions that reflect their values and to move toward a more balanced life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Katja uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on actionable change and emotional understanding. One common approach she draws on helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, then practices new ways of responding to stress and anxiety in everyday situations. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges that affect concentration and routine.She also uses trauma-informed methods that help people make sense of past hurts and reduce their impact on daily life. These techniques emphasize safety, pacing, and building coping skills so memories or triggers interfere less with functioning.
Finding the right approach usually happens together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before, then tailor methods to fit those needs. This collaborative process makes it easier to try techniques and adjust them over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, asynchronous communication. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel routines while keeping treatment consistent and accessible.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, German
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