About Kevin
Kevin Wurtz is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of experience working in California. He helps people who are stressed, anxious, struggling with addiction, or coping with depression. He also supports those facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and ADHD-related concerns.
Kevin practices in a direct and practical way. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps you can try between meetings. He adapts the pace and tools to each person, balancing straightforward problem-solving with attention to feelings.
Background and approach
He often uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new patterns of thinking and behavior. Mindfulness strategies are introduced to help reduce reactivity and increase focus. Motivational interviewing helps people who want change but feel stuck, and solution-focused methods keep conversations aimed at next steps.
Kevin aims to create a respectful and compassionate space. He listens for strengths and builds on what already works. He will work with you to create a plan that matches your situation and goals.
People who come to him for help are offered practical tools, short-term skill building, and longer-term support when needed. He encourages small, achievable changes and checks progress as therapy continues.
Approaches that translate to online care
Kevin commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing practical behavior changes, which can be practiced between meetings. Mindfulness teaching offers short exercises to calm reactivity and improve attention, useful when managing stress or ADHD-related difficulties.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most doable, then try methods that fit. If something does not work, adjustments are made so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets you work face-to-face and practice skills together, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or brief coaching, and text lets you send short updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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