Kat Yoas (she/her)

LCSW
Accepting Clients

I'm a queer femme therapist who supports queer folks, artists, activists, dreamers, and caring professionals on their healing journey.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Child
  • Adolescent/Teen

About My Clients

My clients say I'm easy to talk with because I'm present, compassionate, and am real with them. I listen actively and reflect honestly, engaging in creative, authentic, and occasionally humorous ways. I share tools to help you change the patterns in your life that make you feel stuck. In my strengths-based, trauma-informed, creative and client-centered approach, you will find your way back to yourself: your unique voice, movement, vision, and your way of loving and being loved.

My Background and Approach

I've been trained in relational, creative, and trauma informed approaches with a social justice core. Outside of my private practice, I work in a community mental health clinic with youth and families. I support folks who have navigated systems, and help clients to find their own center of power in the midst of disempowering systems and institutions. My specialities at the clinic are supporting gender expansive and queer youth as well as providing resources and consultation to their families, schools, and provider teams. My work is enhanced by my art, humor, writing, social justice activism, and my own mental health experiences which help me to bring a unique perspective, compassionate understanding, and an affirming stance to help you to explore and embrace your own stories and inner wisdom. This approach helps my clients to later reflect that they are more able to notice their strengths, access comfort and connection, to express themselves in more free and healthy ways.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Attachment Theory Psychodynamic Therapy Relational Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Art Therapy
  • Attachment Theory
  • Coaching
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • EcoTherapy
  • Expressive Art Therapy
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Relational Therapy
  • Sandplay Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
Other Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Career Counseling
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Family Conflict
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Polyamorous and Open Relationships
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Self-Esteem
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
  • Teen Issues
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Atheism
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • The Satanic Temple
  • Wicca/Paganism

At A Glance

  • Experience: 10 years of practice
  • Rate: $190 - 225/session

Reach out to Kat