About Catherine
Catherine Kunin is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 40 years of experience to her practice in New York. She focuses on anxiety and stress and helps people navigate relationship strain, parenting challenges, and self-esteem concerns. Her style is steady and practical, aimed at easing daily pressures and panic when they arise.
Over decades in multiple settings, she has guided people through crisis intervention and community outreach. That background shaped a hands-on approach to problem solving.
Background and approach
She offers clear steps for coping with life changes, chronic illness, and persistent worry. In sessions she listens for what's most urgent and what patterns keep repeating. Conversations can cover communication problems, control issues, isolation, workplace stress, and social anxiety.
She also works with young adult issues, aging and geriatric concerns, and the emotional toll of chronic pain or disability. Her clinical work emphasizes practical tools people can use between appointments. That may include paced breathing for panic, communication strategies for difficult conversations, and small behavioral changes to lift mood during Seasonal Affective Disorder.
The goal is steady progress that fits into everyday life. Catherine’s long experience means she often supports people through big transitions and chronic problems. She combines advocacy skills from community work with session time focused on what will help most now.
Sessions are held in English and offered through several online formats.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Many therapists use evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and on managing physical symptoms of anxiety. Cognitive approaches help people identify and shift thought patterns that fuel worry or panic, and teach practical ways to respond differently. Behavioral strategies break down avoidance and build step-by-step exposure to feared situations, useful for panic and social anxiety.Another helpful approach emphasizes skills for coping with stress and life transitions. This includes breathing and grounding exercises to reduce panic, communication skills for relationship or workplace conflicts, and problem-solving steps for chronic illness or caregiving demands. These kinds of techniques aim to make daily life more manageable and to reduce overwhelm over time.
Choosing the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, current symptoms, and preferences. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s pace and adjust as progress is seen.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical options. Video calls let conversations resemble in-person sessions and support visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a simpler check-in. Live chat and text messaging provide brief check-ins, homework exchanges, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care through transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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