About Katharine
Katharine “Katy” Nicholson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who uses relationship-focused approaches to help people manage anxiety and other life stresses. She brings ten years of clinical experience and a calm, practical manner to sessions. Katy speaks English and works from New York.
Katy centers work on how people connect with each other. She helps clients notice patterns that keep arguments and worry repeating. Sessions often focus on communication, boundaries, and recovering a sense of safety in relationships.
Background and approach
She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current fears and reactions. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify upsetting thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. Emotionally focused strategies help people name and share feelings in a clearer way.
Katy has helped people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, anxiety, grief, and addiction concerns. She also supports people working through body image, eating issues, family-of-origin problems, and career stress. Her background includes community mental health and family therapy settings.
In sessions she favors a warm, listening stance and practical problem solving. Clients can expect a mix of talking, skill practice, and steps to try between appointments. Katy works with each person to shape goals and pick approaches that fit their life.
To begin, she asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule their first appointment. Therapy uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Online approaches that focus on relationships and skills
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current reactions and fear around closeness. It helps people understand why certain situations trigger strong anxiety and offers ways to create steadier responses in relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical experiments and skill practice to reduce worry and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify, name, and share emotions so they can repair connection and feel less stuck in conflict. It often suits clients who want clearer emotional communication and deeper bonds.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that match their needs and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helping and what feels workable for the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and emotional work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, coaching between sessions, and written reflections that clients can review later. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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