About Katherine
Katherine Nies is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD. She offers straightforward, goal-focused sessions that center on the client's experience. Conversations are collaborative and aimed at practical change rather than jargon or long lectures.
In sessions Katherine listens for what matters most and helps clients set clear, manageable steps. She uses mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas to reduce reactivity and build steadier habits.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing helps people find the reasons they want to change and keep moving toward those goals. Her work also addresses attachment concerns, caregiver strain, control issues, life purpose, and pregnancy and childbirth transitions. Katherine blends emotion-focused approaches with client-centered care to help people name feelings and shift relationship patterns.
She keeps things concrete so progress can be noticed between sessions. Clients can expect a mix of short-term problem solving and deeper emotional work when needed. Sessions focus on what the person wants to try next and how to make that action possible.
Katherine aims to make sessions feel like a partnership toward realistic outcomes. With five years of clinical experience, she draws on practical strategies from several approaches rather than a single method. Work is paced to each person’s readiness, and the focus stays on useful steps that fit daily life.
How therapy approaches shape online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and finding direction when life feels stuck. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a listening, nonjudgmental stance so people feel understood and can explore their goals at their own pace. That approach supports self-esteem and emotional clarity. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on identifying and shifting patterns in close relationships by naming feelings and needs to create better connection and response.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katherine will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they will try techniques, notice what helps, and adjust the plan so sessions remain relevant and actionable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support brief updates, coaching-style guidance, or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
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- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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