About Garland
Garland Nichols is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and other hard emotions. He uses clear, practical steps to help people feel steadier and more confident in daily life. Garland works with adults who want straightforward support and tools they can use between sessions.
He draws on three main methods in sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change thoughts that fuel anxiety and low mood.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel stuck and want to find their own reasons to make changes. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, concrete steps that build momentum toward goals. Garland has three years of clinical social work experience and spent four years before that in child welfare and social services.
That background shapes his focus on practical coping skills and clearer communication. He holds a LICSW, which is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in the District of Columbia. In sessions he aims to create an open space where people can speak without judgment.
He partners with clients to identify existing strengths and to add new coping tools they can use outside of sessions. Common issues he helps with include sleep problems, relationship concerns, parenting stress, work stress, ADHD challenges, and panic attacks. Garland offers therapy in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are part of a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is done after a short matching questionnaire.
How these approaches work online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and practice different behaviors that reduce anxiety and low mood. Online sessions let the therapist and client try tools and homework together, then check progress during follow-ups.Motivational Interviewing focuses on a person's own reasons for change and helps strengthen commitment. In virtual sessions it can help people who feel stuck find small, realistic next steps and keep momentum between meetings.
Solution-Focused Therapy aims at practical solutions and quick wins. Sessions concentrate on what’s already working and build short-term goals that add up to bigger change.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan based on progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and fit therapy into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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