About Katia
Katia Gilliam is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 22 years of experience in mental health and social services. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, and ADHD. Katia draws on straightforward tools to help clients take small, practical steps forward.
Her work history includes roles across many settings such as independent practice, crisis intervention, school-based programs, community clinics, detention centers, residential treatment, and social service agencies.
Background and approach
She has also served in program and operations management and as a supervisor for child welfare services. Katia uses a practical, down-to-earth approach in sessions. She leans on solution-focused ideas, trauma-aware thinking, and exercises that teach new skills for day-to-day life.
She often incorporates cognitive-behavioral techniques, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, and mindfulness practices to help people manage reactions and build coping routines. Sessions are aimed at helping people solve immediate problems and build skills for long-term change. Conversations center on what is realistic and useful for each person's life, with steps that can be tried between sessions.
Katia aims to make the process manageable and relevant to real routines. She offers therapy in English and Portuguese and works with clients from a range of backgrounds. Outside of work, Katia values time with her family and time by the beach, which she says helps her stay grounded and focused on what matters.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Many of the approaches Katia uses translate well to remote sessions. Cognitive-behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors in everyday life. These methods help with anxiety, low mood, and problem-solving by creating small, measurable experiments clients can try between sessions.Skills drawn from Dialectical Behavior Therapy teach practical tools for managing intense emotions and improving communication. DBT skills such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation can be practiced during phone or video sessions and reinforced with short exercises sent by message.
Mindfulness exercises help people notice their thoughts and body sensations without judgment. These practices can reduce reactivity and improve focus, and they work well in brief guided practices over video or audio calls.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels doable, then adapt methods as progress is made. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to try and when to adjust them.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging works for brief updates or sharing homework. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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