About Katja
Katja Rapp is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 14 years of clinical experience. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, eating concerns, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and many other life challenges. Katja speaks English and German and sees clients in California and internationally.
She views each person as the expert on their own life. Katja focuses on strengths people already have and helps them use those strengths to meet goals.
Background and approach
She talks in straightforward terms and keeps sessions practical so people can try new ways of coping between meetings. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including body image, codependency, attachment issues, dissociation, and coping with life changes. She also helps with parenting strain, sleep problems, anger, career transitions, and compassion fatigue.
People come for short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work depending on their needs. Sessions combine listening, goal setting, and simple exercises people can practice at home. Katja explains steps clearly and checks in about progress each time.
She helps people build tools for everyday situations and adjusts plans when life shifts. Her practice offers several remote formats so people can choose what fits their schedule. New clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.
Katja aims to create a calm space for honest conversation and steady forward movement.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Katja uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people reduce anxiety by teaching step-by-step exposure and coping exercises that can be practiced between sessions; it is useful for phobias and avoidance patterns. Another approach centers on processing trauma and distress through gradual regulation skills, grounding, and paced narrative work to help reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, and clients are invited to give feedback throughout therapy.
Online therapy gives flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people talk face to face when visual cues help, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging lets clients write between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep steady momentum during transitions.
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What this therapist works with
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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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