Katharine “Katy” Nicholson, LMFT
Collaborative therapist for relationship challenges
Book with KatharineWorks with
- Anger
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
How Katharine works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- New York
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Katharine
Katharine “Katy” Nicholson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in New York who focuses on helping people navigate relationship and family struggles. She combines warm listening with practical steps to improve communication, manage strong emotions like anger, and strengthen connections. Katy has about 10 years of clinical experience working with individuals and family dynamics in outpatient community mental health.
She often meets with individual family members to identify needs that are being missed and to help them find clearer ways to say what matters.
Background and approach
She supports parents who want different approaches to parenting and who need help when routines and boundaries feel out of reach. Her approach is collaborative and adaptable. Katy uses methods drawn from attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and emotion-focused approaches to help people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and practice skills between sessions.
She also brings tools from dialectical behavior therapy when people need emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Sessions tend to be practical and down-to-earth. Katy listens, offers feedback, and helps develop concrete steps you can try at home.
She is willing to try different ideas until something works for each person’s situation. People come to Katy with many concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, eating and sleeping issues, low self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes. She also addresses attachment wounds, communication problems, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and forgiveness work.
What Katharine works with
Everything Katharine lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Katharine's practice.
- 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 lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Using attachment and skills-based work in online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds affect current relationships and emotions; it helps people identify patterns and rebuild more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches clear, doable strategies to change them. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and naming emotions in the moment to deepen understanding and improve connection in close relationships.The therapist approaches choosing a method collaboratively. She will talk with each person about goals, what has or hasn’t helped before, and which techniques feel most useful. That conversation guides whether to emphasize attachment work, skills from CBT, emotion-focused tasks, or a blend tailored to the client’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversations and practicing interaction patterns. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, written skill coaching, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other routines while keeping a consistent therapeutic process.
Questions people ask about Katharine
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with a broad range of issues including relationship and family conflict, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, stress and anxiety, anger, grief, addictions, and self-esteem concerns.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, combining attentive listening with concrete strategies to change patterns and practice new skills between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings about 10 years of clinical experience, including work in outpatient community mental health settings.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - licensed in New York and provides services from that location.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as online formats for therapy.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.