About Niyabinghi
Niyabinghi Thomas is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Kentucky who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. She writes in a straightforward way and focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s pace. Her practice aims to make talking about hard things less overwhelming and more useful.
She uses simple, direct conversation to learn what matters most to each person. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals such as managing mood, improving relationships, coping with grief, or handling work and career stress.
How Niyabinghi works
Niyabinghi balances listening with tools and strategies people can use between sessions. Her background includes four years of clinical experience as an LCSW working with a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, substance use struggles, intimacy-related issues, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment challenges, body image, chronic illness, and dissociation.
In the room she draws from client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques, and she also uses mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. These approaches guide how she helps people notice patterns, try new ways of responding, and set achievable steps toward change. Niyabinghi aims to move at a person’s comfort level rather than pushing for rapid change.
She combines warm listening with practical coaching to help people build more manageable routines, improve communication, and face difficult memories or feelings. If someone is ready to explore change, she works alongside them to set realistic goals and next steps.
Niyabinghi lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Niyabinghi works with
The areas below are the ones Niyabinghi 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and experience. The therapist listens deeply and follows the person’s pace to explore what matters and what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, or mood swings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Niyabinghi will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their needs and goals. That may mean mixing listening-focused, skill-building, and solution-oriented techniques to match a client’s preferences and progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversation and exercises that benefit from seeing one another. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers no video. Live chat and text messaging fit quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or times when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of connecting with a licensed professional.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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