About Katherine
Katherine "Katie" Saraga is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois. She brings four years of practice to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Katie uses plain talk and steady support to help clients find practical ways forward.
She favors a relaxed, down-to-earth style. Sessions explore strengths and everyday skills people can use between meetings. Katie listens for what matters most and helps people try small, concrete steps toward change.
Background and approach
Katie draws on somatic approaches that connect bodily experience with emotions. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered methods to help people accept difficult feelings while choosing values-based actions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are available when helpful.
Her work includes support for attention differences, grief, chronic pain and illness, communication struggles, and concerns around identity and life purpose. She also helps with sleep problems, anger, compassion fatigue, and the practical stresses that come with caregiving or disability. Katie adapts her approach to fit each person’s needs.
Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Katie aims to make therapy accessible and practical so people can use what they learn in daily life.
How Katie blends body-based and evidence-informed methods online
Somatic work helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and use movement, breath, or grounding to regulate feeling and tension. It can be useful for stress, chronic pain, and strong physical reactions to anxiety.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing hard thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person’s experience leads the work.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Katie collaborates with each person to see which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She mixes strategies and adjusts pace so the work feels manageable and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. These options make it easier to access care from home, coordinate around work or caregiving, and use short check-ins or longer sessions as needed.
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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