About Katia
Katia Gilliam is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with 22 years of experience in mental health and social services. She brings years of hands-on work from clinical and community settings to her therapy sessions. Katia speaks English and Portuguese and accepts international clients, offering a range of online formats to fit busy lives.
Her background includes roles in independent practice, school-based programs, community clinics, residential treatment, and social service agencies.
How Katia works
That variety shaped a practical style that focuses on real-life results. She uses straightforward tools to address anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. Katia helps people who are coping with parenting stress, career shifts, identity concerns, or life transitions.
She also supports those dealing with adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, body image, codependency, and mood disorders. Sessions are aimed at clear steps people can try between meetings. In sessions she emphasizes a trauma-informed, solution-focused stance and draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques.
Clients can expect a warm, nonjudgmental space where problems are broken down into manageable pieces. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Practical matters like session format and scheduling are handled with flexibility.
Katia offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so therapy can fit into a variety of routines and time constraints.
What Katia works with
The areas below are the ones Katia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Evidence-based approaches are used in everyday language to help people make changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments, which can reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills teach concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving communication, often through short skill-practice between sessions. Mindfulness-based techniques help people learn to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away, which can support stress management and trauma recovery.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past. From there she recommends techniques and adapts them to the individual's needs in a collaborative way.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for longer sessions and shared worksheets, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins during a busy day, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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