About Katherine
Katherine "Katie" Saraga is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings four years of practice to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She works with people who are navigating relationship strain, grief, sleep problems, anger, and compassion fatigue. Katie also supports those managing ADHD and exploring self-esteem and life purpose.
Katie uses clear, straightforward methods in sessions. She listens without judgment and helps people build on their strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and skills that can be used between meetings. Her approach draws on therapies that teach new ways of thinking and coping. She uses exercises that encourage present-moment awareness, values-based choices, and problem-solving.
Katie adapts these tools to fit each person’s goals and daily life. Clients can expect a calm, down-to-earth style. Conversations move at a pace that feels comfortable while still addressing the issues that matter.
Katie encourages honest talk about progress and setbacks so plans can be adjusted when needed. She also brings experience working with a range of additional concerns, including autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic pain or illness, sensory impairments, intellectual disability, dissociation, pregnancy and childbirth, and young adult issues. Katie speaks English and practices out of Illinois as an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker).
How Katie’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions guided by personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical experiments to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.The right approach is often a mix. Katie works collaboratively to find which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time and checks in about what feels useful so therapy stays focused and relevant.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow more frequent, brief contact and can help keep momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats until one feels comfortable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English