About Mary-Catherine
Mary-Catherine Nimphius is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Oregon. She brings ten years of experience helping people manage intense emotions and life shifts. Her work focuses on practical steps clients can use right away.
She helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, and complicated grief. She also addresses issues around identity, eating and body image, and problems that come from family of origin. Mary-Catherine pays attention to patterns like dissociation, impulsivity, and shame so clients can see what gets in the way.
How Mary-Catherine works
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She listens for what matters to each person and then offers tools they can try between sessions. Those tools may include changes in how someone thinks about a problem, skills to manage intense feelings, or mindfulness practices to steady attention.
Mary-Catherine draws on approaches such as acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavior strategies, and dialetical behavior concepts to match each person’s needs. She focuses on helping people build resilience, clarify values, and improve communication. Sessions aim to be practical and focused on real life changes.
People meet with her by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. English is used for all sessions. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a time that fits their needs.
Mary-Catherine lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Mary-Catherine works with
The areas below are the ones Mary-Catherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It uses simple exercises to reduce getting stuck on painful thoughts and to build a life that feels meaningful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness; these skills can help with impulsivity, anger, and overwhelming states.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that match their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, tracking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging is useful for short check-ins, skill practice, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use the approaches above in ways that suit daily life.
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