About Fatima
Fatima Mehmood is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York with five years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Her focus includes career questions, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and concerns related to trauma and abuse.
Fatima keeps sessions practical and goal oriented. She helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build small, manageable habits that reduce worry and improve mood.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness to slow down strong emotions and motivational techniques to clarify goals and stay on track. Her background includes work with culturally diverse clients and attention to how culture shapes identity and relationships. That perspective guides conversations about multicultural concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, and feelings of isolation or shame.
In sessions she makes space for both problem solving and deeper reflection. People who come to Fatima can expect collaborative planning, experiments to test new behaviors, and talking through hard memories at a pace that feels tolerable. She also addresses practical skills for panic attacks and the daily impact of ADHD.
Fatima describes herself as direct but compassionate. She supports people who want clear steps as well as those who need time to explore their personal history. Her aim is to help clients build resilience and find clearer direction in day-to-day life.
How Fatima adapts evidence-based approaches for online care
Fatima uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce worry and improve daily functioning. She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach attention and breathing practices that calm the body and make strong emotions easier to manage. Motivational Interviewing is used to clarify values and boost motivation when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps.Choosing the right approach happens together. Fatima will discuss options and try techniques that match a person's goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions often mix skill practice, short experiments to test new behaviors, and time to reflect on patterns from the past, with adjustments as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or hands-free communication is needed, and live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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