Kat-1-15
Age Group Served
adults
Therapy Format
individuals
Treatment Focus
anxiety, womens-issues, traumatic-grief, trauma-ptsd, stress, sleep-insomnia, racial-identity, relational-concerns, relationship-issues, pregnancy, depression, codependency, parenting, psychosis, self-esteem, personal-growth, life-transitions, grief, family-conflict, burnout, chronic-pain, eating-disorders
Types of Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Attachment-based/Relational Therapy
Trauma-Focused
Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Psychodynamic
Integrative
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Brainspotting
Insurance Accepted
Out of Network, Private Pay
Can Prescribe Medication: No
Offers Sliding Scale: yes
Therapy Fund Provider: yes
Last modified: February 3, 2025

Kathleen (Kat) Ongbongan Hardisty, LCSW

In-Person / Virtual: tele
License Number(s): LCS 25891
States / Provinces Served: California
Ethnicity: Chinese
Racial Identity / Culture: other-or-no-preference
Languages Spoken: Filipino, English
Sex/Gender: Female

I am a 1.5 generation immigrant Chinese-Filipina therapist with 15 years experience providing virtual sessions from San Francisco, CA. I am a certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional (PMH-C) and a certified EMDR practitioner.

I specialize in working with people who are journeying toward a meaningful life, connected to their values. To move forward past the day to day struggles, get unstuck, and live in alignment with your authentic self.  My practice is rooted in social justice, looking holistically at the person in environment, which informs my perspectives and techniques. My therapeutic style is active, collaborative, and solution focused. My approach includes building skills to deal with the present while addressing the past with brain based interventions such as EMDR and Brainspotting.

I have experience providing therapy working for county mental health and at an HMO, treating the spectrum of mental health disorders and a diversity of people and situations. I especially enjoy working with the Asian community.