Katherine "Katie" Sandven Moss, LMFT
Compassionate therapist offering practical support
About Katherine
Katherine "Katie" Sandven Moss uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage relationship strain, addiction challenges, and self-esteem concerns. She is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 12 years of clinical experience.
Background and approach
Katie aims to make the first steps into therapy easier and less overwhelming for people who are worried or unsure. Katie focuses on clear, down-to-earth work.
She helps people sort through family conflict and parenting stress in plain language. She also supports those dealing with mood concerns, panic attacks, and feelings of isolation or shame.
Sessions emphasize learning skills that can be used between meetings. Katie pays attention to patterns that show up in relationships and attachments.
She helps people understand how past hurts influence present behavior, including control issues, impulsivity, and fears of abandonment. The work often includes improving communication and setting healthier boundaries.
When money and life purpose cause stress, Katie helps people connect values to daily decisions. She also addresses caregiver strain, body image concerns, and the emotional fallout of separation or divorce.
The aim is to make choices feel clearer and more manageable. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward.
People can expect a respectful space to talk through hard feelings and try practical steps. Katie offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Katie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to focus on relationship patterns and emotional regulation. One common approach is work that looks at attachment and relationship patterns to help people understand how early hurts shape current reactions; this helps with communication problems, control issues, and fears of abandonment. Another emphasis is on skills-based strategies to manage mood symptoms, panic attacks, and impulsivity by teaching coping tools and step-by-step practices people can use when stress rises.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Katie collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences. Together they adjust methods as progress is made and new needs come up, so therapy feels tailored rather than fixed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video works well for deeper conversations, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options aim to make consistent therapy more practical for busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English