Katherine "Katie" Sandven Moss

Katherine "Katie" Sandven Moss is a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 12 years of clinical experience. She helps people who feel stuck after big changes, who are questioning work or life direction, or who want clearer purpose. Her work includes addictions, relationship and family tensions, parenting challenges, motivation, and self-esteem concerns.

Katie focuses on practical conversation and steady pacing. Sessions are a place to name what feels off, try out new ways of handling problems, and slowly build habits that match a person’s values. She talks through communication skills, boundaries, and decision points so clients can make clearer choices about next steps.

She also addresses deeper patterns that show up as abandonment worries, attachment issues, control problems, or recurring guilt and shame. Katie helps people notice the patterns that keep repeating and tests small changes to see what shifts.

When life is disrupted by separation, caregiving strain, money stress, or panic attacks, Katie brings steady focus to the immediate problem while linking it back to bigger life goals. She supports clients working on body image, impulsivity, loneliness, forgiveness, and purpose questions.

Her approach is conversational and practical. Clients who are unsure what comes next often start by clarifying a single problem to work on. From there they build a sequence of brief experiments and new skills to try between sessions.

Approach and online session options

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often focus on both what happens now and the patterns that lead to it. One useful approach helps people notice attachment and abandonment patterns and then practice clear communication and boundary skills to change how relationships feel. Another approach targets mood and panic symptoms through short, active strategies such as breathing and thinking changes, plus gradual exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and practical needs. That includes trying an approach for a few sessions and adjusting if it does not fit the client’s style or aims.

Confirm current session formats before booking because the biography does not list specific options. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow a quicker check-in during a lunch break, or avoid travel time. They can also let people use audio-only when bandwidth is limited or they prefer a shorter, focused meeting. Ask about the available formats when you complete the matching questionnaire so sessions fit your schedule and needs.