Katharine “Katy” Nicholson, LMFT
New York · 10 years in practice
Katharine "Katy" Nicholson brings a practical, emotion-focused approach to therapy.
License and registration
- LMFT, New York
- 001066 · expires December 2027
- NPI
- 1578845822 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Katharine
Katharine "Katy" Nicholson brings a practical, emotion-focused approach to therapy. She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside attachment and client-centered ideas to help people talk about painful feelings and repair connections. Katy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in New York with ten years of clinical experience.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and calm. Katy listens for what’s missing in relationships and helps people say what they need.
Background and approach
She works with issues like anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, grief, and struggles with intimacy and self-esteem. Katy often uses attachment-focused work to understand how early patterns affect current relationships. She pairs that with Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques to help people notice and change interaction patterns that cause pain.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used when clearer patterns of thinking and behavior need adjusting. Her background includes outpatient community mental health and family therapy work across many settings. That experience shaped a flexible style that can include practical coaching, communication skills practice, and problem-solving during sessions.
Katy also addresses parenting questions and adoption or foster care concerns when individuals bring those topics up. Sessions are intended to be collaborative. Katy helps clients set goals, try new ways of relating, and track progress over time.
She describes herself as warm, direct, and persistent in helping people find better ways to cope and connect.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Katharine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Katharine names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How emotion-focused and attachment work translates online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on identifying and expressing core emotions that drive repeated interaction patterns, which can help when people feel stuck in hurt or distance. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people try different ways of relating that feel safer and more connected. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, listening stance where the therapist follows the person's lead and offers reflection rather than direction.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Katy will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That might mean combining emotion-focused interventions with attachment ideas or adding cognitive tools for clearer thinking. The plan evolves as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video sessions let therapists watch interactions and emotional cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing processing between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or busy days.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Katy commonly help with?
She works with relationship problems, family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is emotionally focused and attachment-aware, with a warm, direct manner and practical problem-solving in sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Katy has ten years of clinical experience, including work in outpatient community mental health and family therapy settings.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing from New York.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
Katy offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How are sessions priced?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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