Kathleen GrisezLMFT

Kathleen Grisez is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of practice. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people navigating depression and issues connected to LGBT identities. Kathleen speaks English and brings a calm, steady presence to sessions.

Her work begins by listening to each person's story and noticing strengths that can be used to move forward. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and partners with them to set realistic goals. Conversations are direct and grounded, with an emphasis on practical steps that fit into everyday life.

Kathleen has spent three decades supporting people through major life transitions. That experience includes helping with fertility worries, attachment and abandonment concerns, and recovery after infidelity or separation. She also addresses body image, codependency, communication problems, isolation, and midlife changes.

In sessions she focuses on what feels most urgent to the person in front of her. She helps clients build better ways to cope, understand patterns that repeat, and try new behaviors that reduce distress. Progress usually looks like clearer routines, steadier moods, and improved relationships.

To get started, prospective clients follow the site process to match and schedule a first appointment. Kathleen values steady, practical work and supports many people through the hard early steps of change.

How therapeutic approaches fit into online care

Many clinicians described as using evidence-based therapeutic techniques draw on structured methods to help people manage symptoms and build new skills. One common approach teaches practical coping strategies for stress and anxiety, such as breathing, grounding, and breaking problems into smaller steps to make them easier to manage. These techniques can help when worry or panic make daily tasks harder.

Another frequently used approach focuses on relationships and attachment patterns. It looks at how past hurts shape current closeness and communication, and it supports trying new ways of connecting that feel safer and more effective. This approach is often useful for intimacy concerns, grief around abandonment, and repairing trust after infidelity.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will ask about goals, day-to-day routines, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try, adjust the plan as needed, and track progress toward clear, practical goals.

Confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes continuing work after a life change more manageable by offering flexible scheduling that fits around medical appointments, work, or childcare.