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Treatment, Counseling & Therapy
Katja Ahlstrom, M.F.T.
Marriage Family Therapist
Katja is a marriage family therapist, 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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