Karen blurs confidentiality boundaries and other boundaries as well. During sessions she would regularly refer to other client cases, with some identifying details. While seeming benevolent, she is unprofessional.

Karen seemed to act benevolent but came across as authoritative and directive, when I broke up with her. She sent me a long email detailing how she knew best. Which felt like a boundary violation in itself, and a betrayal of my personal material I had shared and trusted her with. All that was a major ick, and double confirmed that this therapist was unprofessional.

Karen would exceed the time limits of the session in an extreme way, never ending the session (1 hr extending to a 2.5hr session, without any conversation around how much time was spent or any increase in fee). Any clinician in the field would find no limit to session time a major red flag for the therapeutic frame. I found it to be majorly unnerving, like she was trying to merge with my material and get me to attach to her too strongly and trust her too quickly.

My advice is trust your intuition if you feel off about something, as it only gets worse. It was a confusing and bewildering $1000 I spent figuring this out. Just because a therapist has decades of experience, or sends you an email about how much of an expert they are, doesn't mean anything.

Submitted Dec. 9, 2023

Omg! This woman is a nightmare. Her hourly rates were ridiculous; I found out she broke confidentiality by talking with my ex-partner about me; she was paid an enormous sum of money by my ex to help me with my mental health “issues” (this is documented in a court case); and eventually was removed from therapy with our family by a family court judge. She took over $100,000 of my money, during which she took vacations to Tahiti, Hawaii, Holland and more. . I’m sure my money paid for those vacations. She is arrogant and corrupt. Avoid!

Submitted Feb. 11, 2020

My husband and I saw Karen years ago. We did not understand at that point that we were being grossly overbilled for sessions that had no end, going up to 2.5 hours at a stretch. We thought this was a sign of her extraordinary commitment. She went into great depth about our relationship but by the time we saw her again a few years later she seemed to have forgotten all of it. And had not taken notes, apparently, of our earlier sessions. It was like we were brand new to her. She remembered nothing. Nothing. We retained her to do an evaluation of our young child. "Evaluation" was the key phrase that was used. Two thousand dollars later, her evaluation was this: "gifted, anxious." Period. That was all she said. For another several hundred dollars she was willing to meet with us and tell us in person of her experiences with our child. For two thousand dollars, I had expected, at minimum, a written report, but the two thousand dollars was spent evaluating our child for 7 hours. At that point I felt so distrustful of her that we all cut ties. I feel that she is an extremely manipulative person who appears to be beneficent. When I told another therapist that Karen charged us $300 an hour and that sessions not uncommonly went multiple hours, he was incredulous. Be careful with thisboundaryless person: you can easily, quickly fork over ten grand within a few months to her because of her long sessions and penchant for having multiple sessions a week.

Submitted Oct. 7, 2019

Blatant lies(too many to list here, including talking in length to third parties WITHOUT even clients' knowledge, let alone consent but lied that she had such "consent", manipulation, breach of confidentiality(she's been cited and fined by the Licensing Board of Psychology of California), abandonment.

Submitted June 28, 2018

Dr. Saeger helped me out of a personal crisis. She challenged me to take the steps I needed. I was reluctant at first, and almost quit, but I'm glad I stuck with it.

Submitted Aug. 24, 2017

These reviews are amazing. My young son saw dr. Saeger in 2012; she then asked that my husband, my son and I come in for therapy; next, she asked that my.husband and I see her alone; finally, she told us that there were conflicts within our relationship that.could be worked through with individual therapy. After a few sessions, it became clear that she was breaking confidentiality and pitting my husband and me against each other! Thank god we got out when we did. This woman is a fraud.

Submitted June 22, 2015

I wish I had researched this site before hiring Dr. Saeger. I am not surprised that she was "fined and cited for breaching confidentiality" by the Board of Psychology (it has now expired so it no longer shows up as a citation, which she was fined for and had to pay $2,000: "Unprofessional Conduct and Breach of Confidentiality". We saw her in 2013 for quite a while. My wife felt there was something wrong with her, but I didn't see it. Until it was too late. She turned our oldest child against us, created a lack of trust where there had been none between my wife and me, and altogether hurt our family instead of helping our family. The several times I met alone with her, at her insistence that we all meet alone with her, I even felt that she was flirting with me. We finally called it quits with her. We wasted a lot of valuable time and money with Dr. Saeger. Of course people have had good experiences with her - but I would not risk your relationships with her. I see that mine is the third destructive encounter with here here just on this site.

Submitted Feb. 19, 2015

My family had a very different experience from the one posted by another reviewer. I'm really surprised, too; we're one of those families with several spouses, ex-spouses, stepparents, step-siblings, half-siblings, not to mention grandparents, plus the family court & several different insurance companies to answer to. We were super vulnerable to misunderstandings/violations of confidentiality. Dr. Saeger met with various combinations of most of us at one time or another & no ever felt that she was anything but scrupulous about the rights of each person. (Even the exes & the teenagers felt like she safeguarded their privacy!) Seeing her was the best thing we ever did; we sorted out family boundaries, resentments, and loyalty problems, learned how to negotiate, how to talk with each other, how to have fun again.(Misdiagnosis? You're so angry, I suspect not. Spend some time looking at yourself rather than taking to the internet to trash Dr.S. I'm guessing it would be more productive.)

Submitted July 8, 2013

Dr. Saeger, tragically, was highly unprofessional in her work with my spouse and I. Breaching confidentiality, working with one without first acquiring permission from the other, right down to misdiagnosis, she caused tremendous harm. We sought help from her for our marriage, but instead recieved harm. Though warm and pleasant, her unprofessional conduct was ruinous.

Submitted Dec. 10, 2012

Dr. Saeger is exceptionally bright, intuitive/attuned and clearly has years of training and experience. She is able to engage even resistant spouses. She offers perceptive, helpful feedback, and has a special talent for creating an environment where even painful subjects can be discussed and resolved without shame or defensiveness. I've seen many therapists, before Dr. Saeger, I only wish I had been referred to her years ago!

Submitted April 7, 2012