About Katja
Katja Rapp is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, eating and mood concerns. She draws on 14 years of clinical experience to guide practical changes and steady coping.
Background and approach
Sessions are offered in English and German and she works with clients in California and internationally. Katja frames therapy as a collaborative process.
She treats each person as the expert in their own life and focuses on clear, doable steps. Conversations usually center on what’s getting in the way now and small experiments to try between sessions.
Her approach emphasizes building strengths and steady progress. That can mean learning concrete tools to manage intense emotions, making changes in relationships, or addressing patterns around food and body image.
She also supports people facing career strain, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, and the effects of past abuse. Katja’s style is direct but warm.
She offers practical coaching alongside therapeutic work, helping clients set goals and track progress. Sessions can include problem-solving, communication practice, and strategies for better sleep and self-care.
Over time clients usually work toward clearer boundaries, improved self-esteem, and more reliable day-to-day coping. If someone wants therapy in German or English, or prefers online formats, Katja can meet by video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many clients find relief from focused, evidence-based techniques that target symptoms and patterns. One useful approach teaches skills for managing strong emotions and anxiety, such as grounding, breathing, and behavioral steps to reduce avoidance. These tools help with panic, worry, and sleep problems. Another common approach looks at relationship patterns and communication. It helps people notice repeated habits, practice different ways of asking for needs, and repair tension with clearer boundaries. This work can assist with intimacy-related issues, codependency, and conflicts at home or work.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, previous attempts at change, and personal preferences. Together they decide what to try first and adapt the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when schedules or travel make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good fit for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick support, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers written conversation. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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