Catherine Kunin, LCSW

Licensed in New York · 40 years in practice

Catherine Kunin is a clinical social worker with four decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationships, and parenting challenges.

License and registration

LCSW, New York: 073864 · expires February 2029
NPI: 1841474038 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 40
Languages: English

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About Catherine

Catherine Kunin is a clinical social worker with four decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationships, and parenting challenges. She practices in New York and brings a calm, practical approach to everyday problems. Catherine uses straightforward talk and steady support to help people find workable next steps.

She focuses on common concerns like low self-esteem, coping with life changes, and panic attacks. Catherine also helps people facing isolation, workplace stress, and social anxiety.

Background and approach

Her background includes work with aging and geriatric issues, chronic illness and pain, and young adult transitions. Sessions tend to emphasize problem solving, building clearer communication, and developing routines that reduce pressure. Catherine draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide conversations and to offer skills people can use between sessions.

She aims to make therapy feel like a collaborative plan rather than a series of lectures. Her long career includes client relationship management, crisis intervention, advocacy, and community outreach. That experience informs how she organizes care and connects people with practical supports when needed.

Catherine is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in New York. People come to Catherine when they want steady help sorting through choices and managing strong feelings. She works with each person to set realistic goals and to practice small changes that add up over time.

The overall aim is clearer thinking and more manageable days.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Catherine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Online support

Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care

Many of Catherine's sessions use straightforward, evidence-based techniques that teach skills and change unhelpful patterns. One common approach focuses on practical problem solving - identifying specific stressors, trying small changes, and tracking what helps. This method can be useful for workplace issues, life transitions, and day-to-day anxiety.

Another approach emphasizes building clearer communication and emotion regulation. Sessions work on ways to express needs, set boundaries, and manage strong feelings so relationships and daily routines run more smoothly. These techniques often help with parenting, relationship strain, and panic symptoms.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Catherine and the person seeking help will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust tactics as progress is made. She aims to tailor methods to each person's situation rather than use a one-size-fits-all plan.

Online therapy with Catherine is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people have a conversation similar to an in-person visit, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity of care across life changes.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Catherine commonly address?

Catherine helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, parenting, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also works with problems like panic attacks, social anxiety, workplace stress, and loneliness.

What is her general approach to therapy?

She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and a practical, collaborative style. Sessions focus on problem solving, communication skills, and strategies people can use between meetings.

How much experience does she have?

Catherine has about 40 years of experience in clinical social work. Her background includes crisis intervention, advocacy, community outreach, and client relationship management.

Where is Catherine licensed and located?

She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in New York. Sessions are offered to people located in that region under applicable regulations.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are offered?

Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options allow for different rhythms of support from longer conversations to brief check-ins.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with Catherine?

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