Aikaterini Kouliaki, LMHC, LPC

Aikaterini Kouliaki is a bilingual licensed clinician based in New York who brings seven years of clinical experience to her practice. She holds the credentials LMHC and LPC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor - and works from a strengths-based, client-centered, and compassion-focused orientation. Fluent in English and Greek, she supports people navigating anxiety, depression, stress, insomnia, relationship challenges, infertility-related stress, postpartum mood concerns, adjustment to life changes, loss, and complicated grief.

Her approach integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) along with Motivational Interviewing to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns, build practical coping skills, and access internal motivation for change. In session she emphasizes collaboration, helping individuals explore values and goals while drawing on their existing strengths. She has experience addressing a wide range of concerns including sleep difficulties, parenting and family issues, addictions and substance-related struggles, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and problems with intimacy and career stress.

Aikaterini frames therapy as a process of growth and adaptation when circumstances cannot be changed directly, offering guidance and strategies to manage emotions and rebuild stability. She encourages those feeling overwhelmed to reach out and begin a therapeutic conversation that meets their needs in English or Greek.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It offers practical strategies for managing symptoms of anxiety, depression, insomnia, and stress by teaching skills such as cognitive restructuring, problem solving, and behavioral activation.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and a nonjudgmental, empathic stance. This approach helps individuals explore their feelings and values at their own pace, supporting growth, self-understanding, and improved emotional regulation in areas like relationships and self-esteem.

Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns of relating that originate in early connections and continue to affect current relationships. It can be especially helpful for intimacy-related issues, family dynamics, and grief as it works to build more secure ways of connecting with others.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and adapt techniques from these approaches to create a personalized plan.

Online therapy offers flexibility - sessions can occur by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit care into busy schedules, manage ongoing symptoms between appointments, and maintain continuity of support across life changes.