About Fatima
Fatima Mehmood is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York. She brings five years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Fatima focuses on helping people build self-compassion and clearer communication while they face life changes and career challenges.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Fatima listens for patterns that get in the way, then works with clients to try new ways of thinking and acting.
Background and approach
She uses tools to manage panic, reduce overwhelm, and ease feelings of isolation. Fatima pays attention to culture and identity in therapy. She helps people untangle relationship patterns, attachment concerns, and issues around abandonment or codependency.
For parents and caregivers she addresses caregiver stress, role strain, and balancing responsibilities while preserving well-being. Her approach combines short-term strategies and deeper reflection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques target unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness practices teach present-moment awareness. Psychodynamic ideas help uncover repeated relationship patterns. Motivational Interviewing supports goal setting and change.
Solution-Focused work helps map small, practical steps forward. Sessions may include skills practice, focused problem solving, and checking progress toward goals. Fatima aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can try things and adjust plans as needed.
She collaborates with each person to find what feels useful and realistic in day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Fatima uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, or impulsivity. CBT is practical and focuses on clear skills that can be practiced between sessions.She also integrates Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing skills that reduce reactivity and improve focus. Mindfulness is helpful for stress, managing panic, and improving day-to-day concentration.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Fatima will talk with clients about problems, goals, and preferences, and then try methods that match those needs. She treats the plan as flexible and adjusts strategies based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers options that fit different schedules and needs: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is low, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to keep momentum, fit sessions around work or caregiving, and use skills in real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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