About Mary-Catherine
Mary-Catherine Nimphius is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Oregon with ten years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, relationship stress, or big life changes. Her work emphasizes steady support and practical steps that people can use between sessions.
She offers a calm, collaborative style. Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the client and building skills that fit daily life. Mary-Catherine listens for patterns that keep problems stuck and then helps people try small changes to test what works.
Background and approach
Her background includes approaches that target thoughts, emotions, and behavior. She uses strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify values and take committed actions.
Mindfulness and emotion-focused work are part of her toolbox too. These methods support noticing difficult feelings without getting overwhelmed and improving how people connect with others. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are taught when stronger emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed.
Mary-Catherine commonly helps with concerns such as stress, self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, eating and body-image issues, caregiver strain, and identity questions related to LGBT and gender. She frames progress as steady, practical shifts rather than quick fixes. To get started she guides people through a clear intake and short goal-setting process.
Sessions can include skill practice, gentle reflection, and tasks to try between meetings so progress carries into everyday life.
How ACT, CBT, and DBT work online
Mary-Catherine commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT sessions often include simple experiments and homework to test new ways of thinking and acting.She also integrates acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values despite difficult feelings. ACT emphasizes practical actions tied to personal goals rather than symptom elimination alone.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills are offered when stronger emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. These are taught as concrete skills people can use in the moment, such as grounding techniques and emotion regulation exercises.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process helps match methods to the person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family life, or other routines.
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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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