About Katherine
Katherine (Katie) Ssejjemba is a licensed clinical social worker who brings seven years of professional experience to her practice. She lives in Texas and balances work with family life and a few beloved dogs, often working from home alongside her Boston Terrier. Katie aims to make the first step toward therapy feel manageable for people who are unsure where to begin.
Katie sees therapy as a collaborative process where the person is the expert on their own life.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths and practical steps that can help reduce stress and improve day-to-day functioning. Typical conversations focus on immediate concerns like anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes so sessions feel relevant from the start. Her background includes work addressing trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and anger.
She also supports people facing caregiver stress, attachment issues, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. Katie combines straightforward talk with tools that people can try between sessions. Therapeutic approaches she draws on include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy.
She adapts methods to the person's needs rather than fitting everyone into one model. Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing flexibility for different schedules. Katie uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Using clear therapeutic methods online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It teaches values-based actions so someone can move toward what matters, even with uncomfortable emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and offers practical techniques to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits. It is often used for stress, social anxiety, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating to others and to themselves.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then recommend strategies that fit. Together they decide whether to emphasize acceptance, skills-building, emotion work, or a mix of methods so sessions feel useful from the start.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling busy days. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in more often or fit brief coaching into a break at work. These options help make therapy practical and more consistent with daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English