About Shannon
Shannon (Katie) Roghaar is a licensed clinical social worker who began her path in health and mental health settings. She holds a master's degree in social work and has about five years working directly in mental health roles. Katie draws on years of experience with substance use and trauma-related concerns when meeting new clients.
Her background includes work in crisis settings and substance use disorder care, and she has supported people coping with anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
Background and approach
She also has experience as a sexual assault advocate. Katie combines what she learned in social work with earlier studies in neuroscience and human development to shape practical help for real life problems. In sessions she focuses on what a person needs that day.
She uses client-centered techniques and teaches mindfulness skills and practical exercises from cognitive behavioral approaches. She also uses acceptance-based strategies and motivational interviewing to support change, depending on what fits the client. Katie pays attention to how past hurts, attachment wounds, and experiences of violence can shape current struggles.
She helps people rebuild self-esteem, manage stress, and address substance use or codependency with clear, doable steps. Work often includes skills practice and short-term goal setting. People who contact her often are navigating grief, relationship problems, career stress, caregiving strain, chronic illness, or issues tied to identity and trauma.
She aims to be a steady, compassionate partner in the work toward clearer choices and more manageable days.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that point toward a life someone cares about, which can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation around substance use. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and experience. The therapist listens, reflects, and supports the person’s choices so sessions feel collaborative and grounded in what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katie will talk with each person about their needs and what they hope to change. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, making the process collaborative and pragmatic.
Online therapy lets people access these methods through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can fit quick check-ins or moments between other responsibilities. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English