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Niyabinghi Thomas

Support for parents and families

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Credentials
LCSW
Experience
4 years
Licensed in
Kentucky, Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Niyabinghi

Niyabinghi Thomas is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns as well as a broad range of personal challenges. She speaks plainly and creates a calm space for open conversation. Her style is warm and interactive, and she moves at each person’s pace.

Niyabinghi aims to support people who are navigating stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, trauma, addiction, or life transitions. She brings four years of experience as a psychotherapist and life coach and works from practical, evidence-informed methods.

Background and approach

Sessions often start with a clear goal and small steps that feel doable. She uses tools that help people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and build skills for everyday life. Niyabinghi blends client-centered listening with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness techniques to address thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

She also uses Solution-Focused and Motivational Interviewing approaches to help people find concrete ways forward. Those methods are applied to issues such as self-esteem, career stress, intimacy-related concerns, ADHD, and coping with chronic pain or caregiving strain. Her practice supports people dealing with complex attachment patterns, abandonment, dissociation, personality-related challenges, communication and control issues, and disruptive mood presentations.

She notices trauma and abuse histories and incorporates trauma-informed strategies when those are present. Sessions are offered in English and take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Niyabinghi holds a Kentucky Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW - and works from Kentucky.

How therapeutic methods translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a safe space for people to tell their story. It helps when someone needs acceptance and steady support while they sort through difficult feelings.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.

Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to the present moment and helps reduce reactivity to strong emotions. It works well alongside CBT when someone needs tools to manage stress or chronic pain.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to address. That collaboration may include trying techniques and adjusting plans over time.

Online sessions through video, phone, live chat, or text make scheduling easier for busy family lives. These options let people access ongoing support from home, keep continuity during life changes, and use brief check-ins or longer sessions as needed. Online formats also allow practical skill practice between meetings and flexible ways to stay in touch with a therapist.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she commonly address?
Niyabinghi works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family challenges, addictions, grief, anger, and intimacy-related problems.
What is her general therapy style?
Her approach is warm and interactive with a focus on open, nonjudgmental dialogue. She moves at the client’s pace and helps set practical, measurable goals.
What experience does she bring?
She has four years of experience working as a psychotherapist and life coach with people facing mood disorders, trauma, ADHD, and relationship or career stress.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with Kentucky licensure listed as KY LCSW 256489, and she practices from Kentucky.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are costs and billing handled?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.

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Experience
4 years
Licensed
Kentucky, Pennsylvania
Languages
English

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