About Caron
Caron Trataris helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, or life changes. She sees adults who are struggling with self-esteem, anger, addiction concerns, parenting strain, and career pressure.
Background and approach
Caron is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, and brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions. Her work focuses on short-term skills and clearer thinking.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to show how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Mindfulness techniques are added to help people notice their physical reactions and find moments of calm.
Narrative therapy is part of her approach when people want to rethink their personal stories. Solution-focused work helps identify small, concrete steps that can be tried between sessions.
Somatic methods are used when physical tension or body sensations get in the way of emotion regulation. Caron trained in counseling, psychology, and business, holding three master’s degrees including a Master of Science in Counseling, Marriage, Child and Family Therapy and a Master of Science in Psychology.
She draws on that varied background to help people sort priorities and make manageable changes. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Caron aims to make therapy feel like a practical place to practice new responses, plan next steps, and reduce the overwhelm that often shows up in daily life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral changes; it can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical tools to shift reactions. Mindfulness therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm in daily life, which can be useful for anger, somatic symptoms, and moments of overwhelm.Narrative therapy helps people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their relationships, often opening new options for action and meaning when life feels stuck. These approaches are explained and chosen together so the work fits the person's goals and comfort level.
Caron treats the selection of methods as a collaborative process. She will talk with clients about what feels useful, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That way the approach evolves from session to session rather than being fixed from the start.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for longer sessions and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited or for a simpler check-in, live chat suits brief exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum while working on change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English