About Nicholas
Nicholas Masser is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship or family strain. He works directly with individuals to talk through parenting challenges, grief, trauma concerns, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem issues. He presents as straightforward and supportive for someone making a first step into therapy.
Nicholas draws on nine years of hands-on experience to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
He treats problems as linked to life circumstances, habits, and recurring patterns rather than as fixed limits. Sessions tend to focus on practical steps people can try between meetings, plus gentle attention to underlying emotional themes. His approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices to help people notice thoughts and change unhelpful routines.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want support making concrete changes, and psychodynamic ideas help uncover long-standing patterns that affect current relationships. Solution-focused methods shape short-term goals when quick direction is helpful. Nicholas works with a broad range of concerns including ADHD, bipolar disorder, chronic pain and illness, codependency, addiction, and vocational stress.
He also supports people dealing with first responder or veteran-related issues and compassion fatigue. The aim is to make therapy useful and manageable alongside everyday life. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, chat, or text.
He holds New York LCSW 091149 and encourages people to take one step at a time toward clearer choices and more calm.
Online approaches that fit your life
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and many everyday problems by giving concrete tools to practice between sessions. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can help with stress, anger, and ongoing rumination. Motivational interviewing is a collaborative way to explore ambivalence and build motivation for change, useful for addiction concerns, lifestyle shifts, and setting realistic goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help decide which combination of methods fits the client’s goals, background, and preferences. This is a collaborative process where goals and techniques are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people read facial cues and have a longer, interactive conversation. Phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, thought-checking, or more frequent support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other responsibilities.
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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