About Katia
Katia Gilliam is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with 22 years in mental health and social services. She focuses on practical help for stress and anxiety and on supporting people through life changes. She speaks English and Portuguese and works with a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma, parenting struggles, and addiction.
Her background includes roles in independent practice, school-based programs, crisis intervention, community mental health clinics, detention centers, and residential treatment.
Background and approach
She has experience in program and operations management and has supervised clinical work for child welfare settings. Those varied roles shape a practical approach to everyday problems. In session she uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques to help clients manage symptoms and build coping skills.
She draws on strategies such as cognitive work, skills training, and mindfulness to reduce worry and improve emotional regulation. Sessions focus on small, doable changes that fit into a busy life. Katia aims to make therapy warm and nonjudgmental.
She helps people sort through the past and develop workable plans for the present. Parents will find practical help for parenting challenges and for balancing family and self-care. Outside work she values time with her husband and three children and enjoys the beach and travel.
Those personal interests inform a calm, grounded style in session and an emphasis on recovery that respects each person’s pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
She commonly uses cognitive techniques that help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce worry and improve mood. She also teaches skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy - practical tools for managing intense emotions, improving communication, and handling stress. Mindfulness practices are used to increase present-moment awareness and to lower reactivity when anxiety or trauma memories arise.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, then try techniques that fit. Adjustments are made over time so the plan matches what actually helps the client in daily life.
Online therapy offers several convenient ways to work together. Video calls let people connect face to face for in-depth sessions, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or skill coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, provide continuity during life changes, and accommodate different communication preferences.
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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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