About Nye
Nye Knowles is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who helps people facing relationship strain, trauma, intimacy struggles, and low self-esteem. He focuses on practical steps people can use to feel safer in their bodies and make clearer choices in relationships. Nye aims to make therapy straightforward and usable, with an emphasis on real-life change.
He draws on somatic work to help clients notice how emotions show up physically and then use the body to calm and regulate.
Background and approach
Attachment-based tools are used to understand how early patterns shape current relationships. Client-centered techniques keep sessions focused on each person's goals and values. Over nine years of practice, Nye has worked with people managing abandonment, attachment problems, codependency, dissociation, emptiness, and communication issues.
He also addresses concerns related to BDSM, kink, sexual health, and fatherhood issues, plus stressors faced by first responders and veterans. Treatment plans are tailored to the individual rather than a fixed protocol. Sessions often mix talk-based reflection with body-focused exercises and practical skill-building.
Clients learn strategies for emotion regulation, clearer communication, and healthier boundaries. Nye helps people turn insight into habits that fit their daily lives. He holds the license LMHC, Florida LMHC MH21786.
Therapy is offered in English and can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How somatic and attachment approaches work online
Somatic Therapy helps people notice where emotions live in the body and use breath, movement, and grounding to reduce overwhelm. It can be useful for trauma, anxiety, and situations where feelings feel stuck rather than only thought-based. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in early relationships and how those patterns show up now. It helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and practice different ways of connecting.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether somatic techniques, attachment-focused work, or a client-centered pace fits best. Goals, comfort with body-focused methods, and daily life needs guide the plan together.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats let people fit sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments and continue regular practice between meetings. The mix of talk and body-oriented exercises can be adapted to remote formats so clients can build new habits in their everyday settings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English