Katherine Dickerson, LMFT — Therapist in California

Hi there, I'm Katherine!

Working in the mental health field for the past twenty years I have experience working with all ages of clients and experiences. My focus in working with you as my client will be to make long lasting changes in your personal, social, and emotional parts of your life. I am passionate about the work I do and really enjoy helping my clients.

My focus

I utilize a step by step process led by you the client to understand your life, needs, and thoughts, to help you identify ways to help enrich your life through behavioral and thought changes.

My approach

My approach in therapy is building trust with my clients and making sure they feel comfortable and safe. I utilize a psychodynamic lens with solution focused approaches to goals. My warm and compassionate model helps my clients create changes in their lives.

My communication style

I am rooted in safe and trusting communication, which would include warmth, kindness, responsiveness, and most importantly, patience and empathy.

My journey to mental healthcare

I have come to recognize that my warmth and compassion are best served in the work I do in the mental health field. I have worked diligently the past twenty years in many different roles that serve different and diverse populations and really cherish seeing my clients make changes and feel better in their life.

My goals for you

We will work together in creating small steps to work towards areas of need. We will collaboratively create a goal where you identify what you are needing and make steps to work towards enriching and changing patterns to increase your engagement and needs in your life.

Our first session

Our first session will primarily be about building a good fit for both of us and building trust. The first session is important to me in making my clients feel heard and comfortable.

I identify as...

Female
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Expertise

Treatment approaches

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)

Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)

Attachment-based

Child/Parent Psychotherapy

Dialectical (DBT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Motivational Interviewing

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Focus populations

Blind

Deaf

Single Mother

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Therapy types

Individual Therapy

Ages served

Children
Minors
Preteens
Adults

Practice

Accepted insurance providers

Aetna
Allegiance
Allied
Arlo
Ascension-SmartHealth

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Languages spoken

English

Education

Master's in Counseling (MC) in Educational Counseling from National University.

Sessions

60 minutes

Virtual sessions

Katherine Dickerson