Katie Thomas
Katie Thomas
(she/her)
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read about me. I graduated from Mills College with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1988. I worked in residential treatment programs for 15+ years, leading me to return to school and earn my masters degree at Chapman University in 2003. I have been a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 2006. Simply put, I love being a therapist. I love sitting across from other human beings and focusing solely on getting to know them - their strengths, their histories, their worries or fears, and their goals and dreams. Extending myself into the experience of each client means that I am focused on finding ways of helping that will work for them specifically. Each person is unique and your therapy should be unique to you as well.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Our first session together will be focused on responding to any questions or concerns you may have about the process of therapy or about me, beginning to get to know each other, and gathering information about what brought you to therapy and identifying ways in which I can be of help.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
My clients find me warm, understanding, "real," and skilled. I tell all my clients that therapy is not something I do to you, but rather something we do together. I am responsive to feedback and am happy to change my approach is something is not working well for you.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I work well with a very broad range of clients and problems. I can work from a solution-focused perspective and help a client identify desired outcomes and tools in a few sessions, and I have also worked for years with clients who desire a longer term approach. If you appreciate a warm, direct, very "real" therapist, who has a good sense of humor, I believe I might be a good fit.
About Katie Thomas
Katie Thomas offers therapy covered by Gold Coast Health Plan (Medi-Cal), Health Plan of San Joaquin - Medi-Cal, L.A. Care Health Plan (Medi-Cal), Partnership HealthPlan of California (Medi-Cal) and San Francisco Health Plan (Medi-Cal) in California.
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151 N Sunrise Ave, Roseville, CA 95661, suite 1106Appointments
Virtual & in-personMy treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I have a strong understanding of how thoughts and feelings impact our moods and our lives. I assist clients with the exploration of early experiences to help them identify where their core beliefs were formed. I am well versed in interventions that assist with changing thoughts and restructuring core beliefs.
EMDR
I am an EMDR certified clinician, and utilize EMDR to assist clients with processing trauma as well as to assist with physiological regulation. EMDR fits nicely with CBT as both address core beliefs and the ways in which thoughts and feelings are connected.
Attachment-based
My experience has taught me that our attachment experiences are at the very core of our being. The specific ways in which we experience the world around us can often be traced back to early attachment experiences. Throughout our lives we form attachments with primary caregivers, siblings, friends, and partners. The ways in which our needs were met at each developmental stage we go through in our lives can impact how we go about getting our needs met today.
Person-centered (Rogerian)
Being "person centered" means that I believe that each human being is unique, worthy of respect and love, and is the expert on themselves. My role as a therapist is to extend myself into the experience of each client, exploring what it is like to be them, and finding ways to solve problems and heal that fit them specifically. I am collaborative in goal setting and will check-in frequently about how our work together is going.