Atasha Codginton, LMHC

Atasha Codginton is a New York licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with three years of professional experience supporting individuals and families through emotional and relational challenges. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, navigate relationship concerns, resolve family conflicts, and address parenting issues, including work with parents of children with special needs. Atasha approaches each person as the expert of their own story and looks for strengths that can be built on to face life’s difficulties.

Her practice centers on empowering clients to take meaningful steps toward a more fulfilling life. She acknowledges the courage it takes to seek change and partners with clients to provide steady support and practical guidance through transitions and hardships. Whether addressing self-esteem, codependency, forgiveness, or complex family dynamics, Atasha aims to create a respectful, strengths-based space where people can explore options and move toward their goals.

As a licensed clinician in New York, Atasha combines warmth and clinical focus to assist clients in identifying patterns, clarifying priorities, and developing manageable strategies that fit their lives. Her work emphasizes collaboration, resilience, and the gradual steps that lead to sustainable change.

Approaches That Guide Online Care

Atasha uses client-centered therapy to create a supportive, nonjudgmental space where clients lead the pace and focus of sessions while the therapist reflects and clarifies what matters most. This approach is helpful for people working through relationship concerns, family dynamics, or questions about life purpose because it highlights personal strengths and priorities.

She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and skills-oriented, often useful for managing stress, anxiety, obsessive thoughts, and compulsive behaviors.

Finally, Atasha incorporates elements of emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) to address relational patterns and attachment concerns, offering tools for improving communication, reducing reactivity, and repairing connection in couples and families.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Atasha collaborates with each client to determine which methods best match their goals, needs, and preferences. She works with clients to tailor sessions and adjust strategies as progress unfolds.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and people in different parts of New York. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, access support from home, and fit therapy into daily life while working with a licensed professional.