About Mary-Catherine
Mary-Catherine Nimphius is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Oregon with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and identity questions. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She aims to help people feel steadier and more able to cope with life changes. She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs, including mindful practices and skills-based strategies. Sessions often include straightforward tools to manage strong feelings and reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Conversations also look at patterns that cause repeated stress, so people can try new ways of responding. Mary-Catherine pays attention to relationships and identity issues. She supports people navigating LGBT concerns, gender dysphoria, intimacy and communication problems, and family of origin wounds.
She also works with concerns such as eating and body-image struggles, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. Her methods pull from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy. That variety lets her combine skills training, emotion-focused work, and values-based action in sessions.
The result is an approach tailored to each person’s goals. In practice she uses phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging to meet people where they are. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client’s rhythm.
She practices with a calm, validating style aimed at helping people build resilience.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when anxiety or avoidance gets in the way of living how someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing new skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It often involves simple exercises between sessions to test new ways of coping. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) blends skills training in distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for intense emotions and relationship difficulties.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up, then recommend ways of working together. That recommendation can change as the work evolves so the plan stays matched to current needs.
Online therapy with this practitioner uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care practical. Video is good for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let clients check in between sessions and process thoughts in written form. These options aim to create flexibility so therapy fits into daily life and supports steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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