Katharine “Katy” Nicholson, LMFT

Katharine 'Katy' Nicholson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in New York with 10 years of clinical experience. She combines a focus on family systems with individual support to help people improve communication, strengthen relationships, and navigate difficult life transitions. Nicholson often works with whole families, drawing on her family therapy training to identify patterns that leave individual members feeling unheard, while also meeting privately with parents, teens, or other family members to address unmet needs and practical concerns.

She offers calm, empathetic support for parents seeking effective approaches to parenting and for people looking to repair or nurture strained relationships. Her practice includes work on trauma and abuse, addiction, anxiety and depression, grief, intimacy and body-image issues, ADHD, and a range of family-related challenges such as blended-family adjustments, adoption and foster-care concerns, and communication problems. Nicholson brings both warmth and problem-solving focus to sessions and is comfortable using creative, flexible strategies when standard approaches do not fit.

Nicholson has used a variety of methods in her work, including family therapy, play therapy, mindfulness practices, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), psychodynamic approaches, and Internal Family Systems techniques. With eight years of experience in outpatient community mental health settings, she is practiced at responding to complex situations and perseveres until a workable resolution is reached. She looks forward to working with clients through online counseling.