Kate Nichols is a psychotherapist based in Essex County seeing clients virtually throughout New Jersey. She specializes in working with women, LGBTQ folks and non-binary femmes from their mid 20’s-midlife dealing with anxiety, perfectionism, depression, self esteem, and trauma, and is also passionate about working with creatives and small business owners.
Her focus is on helping her clients to live with more self trust, confidence, and authenticity by reducing the impacts of stress, shame, and the burdens of expectations from others or from themselves. Kate’s approach is compassionate, curious and authentic, bringing humor and humanness to therapy sessions.
She creates a therapeutic environment that invites her clients to get more curious about themselves in a safe, gentle way, tailoring sessions to the approach and subject matter that is best for each individual client. Her clients tend to be folks who look like they’ve got it all together and are very independent from the outside, but actually struggle to make their real feelings, wants and needs known to the people in their lives and often experience high levels of guilt and shame around not doing enough or being good enough. Her clients are yearning to go deeper and better understand themselves so that they may live more enriching lives aligned with their true values and passions.
Kate utilizes a range of therapeutic techniques including CBT, ACT and mindfulness and somatic practices, as well as EMDR, a therapeutic modality often used to address current day issues stemming from previous life experiences, including but not limited to traumatic events like sexual assault, medical issues, abuse, neglect, and patterns or behaviors learned to cope or protect yourself earlier in life that are now causing interference in your day to day life and goals.
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