About Katherine
Katherine "Katie" Saraga is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois with four years of professional experience.
Background and approach
She brings a calm, empathetic presence and a practical, strengths-focused orientation to her work, helping clients identify resources within themselves to address stress, anxiety, self-esteem, grief, and other life challenges. Katie emphasizes collaboration and uses evidence-informed approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness-based techniques to tailor support to each person's needs.
Her background includes attention to a wide range of concerns including ADHD, relationship and family issues, chronic illness and disability, and difficulties with sleep, anger, and motivation. Katie also lists additional focus areas such as communication challenges, dissociation, sensory impairments, and life-purpose work.
She frames therapy as a partnership aimed at practical coping skills, clearer values, and improved day-to-day functioning, and she communicates in English with clients in Illinois.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify personal values and learn how to take action in ways that matter to them, while also accepting difficult thoughts and feelings rather than struggling with them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve daily functioning. Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and gentle attention to experience, which can support stress reduction and emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to explore goals, preferences, and responses to different techniques, adapting methods over time to find what feels most helpful for the individual's situation.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility by allowing sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit care into busy schedules or when in-person visits are difficult. These formats support continuity of work, let clients use tools learned in session in their everyday environment, and provide multiple ways to communicate based on comfort and need.
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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