Katherine Stromska

Hi! I'm Katherine, but you can call me Kate. I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in the South Bay Area, I specialize in working with women who want to overcome people-pleasing, perfectionism, perinatal/maternal mental health issues, and problematic relationship patterns. In addition to all of that, I'm a certified matrescence educator, meaning I'm trained to support mothers at all stages of their motherhood journey, from new mom to grandmother, in exploring and understanding how they grow and change right alongside their children.

My approach to therapy is one that's interactive, empowering, and focused on supporting you create the changes you want in your life. I like to collaborate with you on defining your goals at the outset of treatment and keep track of the progress you make along the way. Therapy is rarely a straight line from here to healed, so I'll remind you from time to time of how far you've come and of your accomplishments along the way.

When we first meet, we'll explore what has brought you to seek therapy and what you're looking to be different in your life. I'll help you come up with goals that make it easy to determine when they've been met by asking questions such as, "How will you know we've accomplished ___? How will you feel? What would be different?" Over the course of treatment you can expect to be supported, challenged, validated, held accountable, shed some tears, and have some good laughs.