Therapy for California, Wherever You Are

Annie Harton Kassell, MA, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist who sees California women virtually, by secure video. Whether your mornings begin in a Los Angeles high-rise, a San Diego cul-de-sac, a foggy Bay Area kitchen, or a quiet town in the Central Valley, the work is the same. A safe space. A steady presence. A path back to the woman you were before everything else got loud.

Telehealth means you do not fight the 405, you do not find a sitter, you do not give up an entire afternoon to a single appointment. You need a quiet room, a steady connection, and the willingness to begin.

Many women assume they can only see a therapist with an office in their city. With telehealth, what matters is where you are, not where your therapist sits. Annie holds an active LMFT license in California, so she can lawfully and ethically meet with you by video while you are anywhere in the state.

It is simple in practice: you receive a private, HIPAA-compliant video link, you click it at your appointment time, and you are in, no app to puzzle over, no front desk, no time lost to traffic.

Annie works with married women who feel as though they have slowly disappeared into the caretaking, the calendars, and the version of life they were supposed to want. If you have caught yourself wondering who am I underneath all of this, that is precisely the work she does.

Her care is grounded in evidence-based methods, including Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, and cognitive behavioral therapy, and for the women who want it, faith and a Catholic perspective can be woven in. Faith is an anchor, never the lead, and it is set fully aside for those who prefer that. The woman in front of her is always the center.

California draws a particular kind of Catholic woman: driven, capable, often running a household, a career, and a ministry commitment all at once, with little room left over to ask how she is actually doing. Annie hears the same quiet question from many of these women: who am I, underneath the calendar I keep for everyone else?

In her work with couples, Annie leans on the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy, and for engaged couples, on SYMBIS, PREPARE/ENRICH, or FOCCUS, the marriage preparation inventory used across Catholic dioceses nationwide. Cognitive behavioral therapy rounds out her approach for women carrying anxiety or intrusive thoughts they have not said aloud to anyone. None of this requires faith to be part of the room. It simply makes space for it when a client wants that room to include her spiritual life too.

For California women navigating that tension from the Bay Area to the Inland Empire, from Sacramento to San Diego, a therapist who understands both the clinical and the spiritual side of it can be hard to find close to home. Because Annie works entirely by telehealth, distance from a parish counseling ministry or a Catholic-specific practice no longer has to be the reason you wait.

Annie sees clients across all of California, Los Angeles, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno, Long Beach, and Oakland, along with the smaller towns and rural corners where a specialist down the road simply is not an option.

Because Annie practices from Indiana on Eastern time, California sessions are scheduled in Pacific Time so your appointment lands when you expect it. Morning and midday Pacific slots tend to be the easiest to settle around a California workday.