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Katja Ahlstrom Marriage Family Therapist Intern

Katja is a marriage family therapist intern, and a mother of two. She lived in Germany the first
twenty years of her life, which gives her a unique perspective and adds to her multicultural awareness. Katja
struggled with anorexia in her teen years and overcame it by finding expression in the Arts, hence her first
degree in Theatre Arts. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Masters in Clinical Psychology, which
she received from Antioch University of Los Angeles. Katja completed her traineeship at Inland Aids Project
in San Bernardino, California and further gained experience in working with grief clients at hospice of San
Luis Obispo.
Katja has an interest in the humanistic approaches of Carl Rogers and Eugene Gendlin, and is
finding a way to incorporate Gendlin’s focusing oriented psychotherapy with some of the cognitive behavioral
approaches already practiced with the eating disorder population. This is intended to help shift their
experience of their eating disorder over time, such that it doesn’t have the same grip on their emotions.
Furthermore, Katja is hoping to inspire clients by integrating art, movement and drama into individual as
well as group psychotherapy.
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