Dr. Kathy Greathouse, LMFT

Dr. Kathy Greathouse is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with eight years of clinical experience. She blends talk therapy with mind-body practices to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and major life transitions. Her work emphasizes gentleness and practical steps people can use between sessions.

Her approach mixes traditional therapeutic listening with techniques that attend to the body and breath. Sessions may include meditation cues, breathwork, or guided relaxation alongside conversation. She uses these tools to help clients notice how emotions show up in the body and to build everyday coping skills.

Dr. Greathouse uses Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, Existential, Mindfulness, and Narrative ideas in her work. She draws from each approach to match the moment - for example, using mindfulness for anxiety or narrative methods to revisit a difficult life story. The emphasis is on what the client needs now, not on fitting everyone into one model.

She supports people facing relationship strain, addiction concerns, parenting stress, career questions, and identity or purpose struggles. Aging and geriatric issues are listed among her focus areas and she addresses life-stage questions like midlife change and retirement transitions.

Sessions are conducted in English and Dr. Greathouse practices in California. New clients begin by completing a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling based on therapist availability.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of connection and trust. It helps people notice how past relationships shape current responses and supports building new ways to relate and feel safer in relationships. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own experience and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s lead to identify goals and next steps.

Finding the right method is part of the work. Dr. Greathouse will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which approaches to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.

The practical benefits of online therapy can include easier scheduling, fitting sessions into a workday, and staying consistent when travel or caregiving makes in-person visits difficult. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm available options before booking. Many people find that combining conversational therapy with brief mindfulness or breathwork practices works well over remote appointments and helps them use learned tools between sessions.