Kathi-Ann Busha, LCMHC

Kathi-Ann Busha is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in Utah. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, parenting strains, and issues around self-esteem and eating. Her style is conversational and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel approachable for people worried about taking a first step.

She focuses on how thoughts and everyday habits shape feelings and behavior. Sessions often include exploring personal stories and looking for different meanings in those stories. Kathi-Ann mixes talking work with practical skills like mindfulness, thought-pattern shifts, and grounding exercises to manage day-to-day distress.

Her background includes six years of counseling experience and a license as an LCMHC in Utah. She has worked with people facing long-term depression, persistent anxiety, family conflict, and trauma, including sexual abuse and sexual trauma. She also has experience supporting people with ADHD and those on the autism spectrum.

In session she usually helps people name the patterns that keep problems repeating and then practice different ways of responding. That can mean learning specific coping tools, trying structured skills from DBT, or using eye movement approaches for trauma processing alongside narrative techniques.

She aims to meet each person where they are and move at a pace that feels manageable. Kathi-Ann encourages people to try therapy even when it feels hard and to pick skills that fit everyday life.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It centers the client's own goals and relies on open conversation to make sense of problems and plan next steps. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress through short, learnable techniques. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, is used to process traumatic memories by pairing focused attention with guided methods to reduce the emotional intensity tied to those memories.

Choosing the right approach is something to do together. The therapist will talk about the options, try different techniques, and adjust based on how the client responds. The aim is collaborative: decide what feels useful and practical for daily life rather than stick to a single method.

Confirm the available session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so therapy can happen during a lunch break or between errands. It also makes it possible to use guided skills, mindfulness practices, and narrative work in the moment while still meeting with a licensed professional.