Nicholas Masser
Straightforward support for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Nicholas
Nicholas Masser is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a broad range of emotional and life challenges. He aims to make first conversations straightforward and calm. Many people come to him feeling stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed by relationships and family roles, and he helps them sort through those pressures.
Nicholas acknowledges the courage it takes to begin therapy and meets people where they are.
Background and approach
He uses clear, practical steps rather than long talks that go nowhere. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, for example, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behavior. Mindfulness practices help reduce reactivity and improve focus in the moment.
Motivational Interviewing supports people who want to change habits but feel unsure where to start. Nicholas brings nine years of experience in New York to his work and holds the LCSW credential, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. He draws on that background when addressing issues like depression, grief, addiction, trauma, and coping with life changes.
He also has experience with topics such as ADHD, chronic illness, blended family dynamics, and communication problems. In sessions he aims for clear goals and steady progress. Conversations are practical and tailored to the person's situation.
He encourages using small, manageable steps so changes feel possible rather than overwhelming. Therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and appointments are arranged after completing a short matching questionnaire.
Approaches for online work and practical change
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people test and change unhelpful patterns to reduce anxiety, depression, and relationship stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and help someone stay calmer in tense family or parenting moments. Motivational Interviewing is a short, collaborative method that helps people find their own reasons to change habits like substance use or avoidance behaviors and build a plan that fits their life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicholas will talk with each person about goals and try methods that match those needs. He works together with clients to adjust techniques and pace so the plan stays realistic and useful.
Online format options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These choices make it easier to fit sessions around busy family schedules, allow follow-up between meetings, and offer ways to keep therapy going when in-person visits are not possible. The goal is to make consistent progress through flexible, practical contact.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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