Kathi-Ann Busha
Compassionate, practical help for families
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kathi-Ann
Kathi-Ann Busha is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in Utah. She works with parents and families on stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, and related concerns. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, eating and body image issues, and identity matters.
Her tone is conversational and down-to-earth, aimed at helping families make small, practical changes. She uses a collaborative approach that centers the client's perspective. Sessions often include talking through family stories and reframing unhelpful meanings.
Background and approach
Kathi-Ann combines eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - EMDR - with narrative ideas to help process past hurts. She also teaches mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage strong emotions and impulsivity. In sessions she helps people build concrete tools for day-to-day life.
That might mean learning simple grounding or breathing practices, working on thought patterns, or trying new ways to handle conflict at home. She adapts techniques to each person’s needs rather than using a single formula. Kathi-Ann has six years of clinical experience and holds the Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credential - LCMHC.
She has worked with children, teens, and families, and with people who have experienced sexual trauma. Her work includes attention to autism spectrum traits and quirks when relevant. Her style is open and conversational.
She focuses on helping families find clearer meaning in their stories while developing skills to cope with everyday challenges. Many clients leave with practical strategies they can use between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s lead, helping people feel understood and able to explore what matters most to them. This approach supports families who need a safe space to talk through problems and make decisions together.Dialectical behavior therapy - DBT - teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive behaviors. It is useful for parents or adolescents who need tools to stay calm during conflict and handle strong reactions.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - EMDR - is a method used to process painful memories and reduce their emotional charge. It can be applied when trauma or past abuse makes daily life and relationships harder.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the family about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to focus on skill teaching, narrative changes, EMDR processing, or a blend of methods.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families. Video calls let therapists and family members see one another and work through relationship patterns. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide options for shorter check-ins, skill coaching, or ongoing support between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a family schedule and use tools in real time.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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