About Nichola
Nichola Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and issues related to addiction and trauma. Nichola takes a warm, nonjudgmental approach and aims to make early conversations feel manageable for a worried parent or individual checking therapy on their phone.
She uses straightforward, practical methods. Sessions focus on identifying immediate concerns and building small, doable steps toward relief.
Background and approach
Nichola combines talking through feelings with practical tools to handle day-to-day stress and anxiety symptoms. Her session style is interactive and respectful. She listens first, then works with each person to create a plan that fits their life.
That plan may include strategies from cognitive behavioral approaches and solution-focused techniques tailored to the person in front of her. Nichola has supported people through relationship strain, family conflict, self-esteem struggles, career challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also has experience helping those who have experienced trauma, emotional abuse, or significant loss.
Her background includes long-term practice in counseling and direct work on these concerns. She offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions. People who want to begin can complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
Nichola encourages taking small first steps and offers steady guidance through change.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a safe space where people feel heard and understood. It helps when someone needs steady support while they sort out emotions and make choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple skills to shift unhelpful patterns. That approach is often useful for anxiety, stress, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will discuss goals and preferences and will collaborate with each person to choose methods that feel useful. Sessions can blend listening with concrete skill-building so the plan fits daily life and changes as progress is made.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging lets people fit sessions around school, work, and family demands. Video allows face-to-face interaction when that helps the connection. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to schedule. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins and ongoing reminders between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can be practical and easier to keep up with.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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