About Catherine
Catherine Nyika offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or relationship strain. She aims to create an easy place to talk where worries are taken seriously and next steps are clear. Catherine is an AASW social worker with six years of professional counselling experience.
Before that she spent 14 years providing counselling support in community organisations. That background means she has seen many ways stress and family issues affect everyday life.
How Catherine works
She helps people deal with trauma, abuse and low self-esteem using straightforward methods. Sessions focus on understanding patterns, managing difficult feelings and building small practical changes that help day-to-day functioning. Catherine often uses acceptance and commitment techniques alongside cognitive behavioural ideas to change unhelpful thinking and encourage values-based living.
She also draws on attachment-based and client-centred approaches to strengthen relationships and deepen self-understanding. Her work includes support for concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, attachment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, codependency, body image and coping with illness or disaster. She also helps with blended family issues, communication problems, commitment worries and separation.
Sessions are offered in English and can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Catherine aims to make the first steps simple so people can begin practical work without added stress.
Catherine lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Catherine works with
The areas below are the ones Catherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on recognising painful thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match your values. It helps when worry or avoidance stops you doing things that matter. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It supports people who want clearer, safer ways of connecting and communicating in relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Catherine will work with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, preferences and day-to-day needs. She reviews what helps and adjusts the plan as progress is made, so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets you work face to face from different locations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while accessing appropriately qualified therapists from where you are.
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