About Nicholas
Nicholas Smith is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois who helps people facing anxiety, stress, and life transitions. He focuses on practical steps to manage emotions and make changes that match personal values. Conversations are straightforward and goal-oriented so parents and busy people can use what they learn right away.
He explains how thoughts influence feeling and behavior, and works with clients to notice and challenge unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple, do-able strategies to calm intense emotions and improve sleep, focus, or motivation. He also supports people dealing with addiction, grief, anger, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Nicholas has practiced in student counseling at Moody Bible Institute, in a hospital inpatient psychiatric unit, in independent practice, and at a drug and alcohol addiction treatment center.
Those varied settings inform how he tailors work to each person's situation. He brings 13 years of clinical experience to each session. He draws on several approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior techniques, existential reflection, and mindfulness practices.
Nicholas aims to fit methods to the person rather than force one style on everyone. Appointments typically focus on what the client wants to change, with clear steps to try between meetings. He aims to be direct but compassionate, helping people move from feeling stuck toward clearer purpose and daily routines that feel manageable.
How therapy approaches fit online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and habits to reduce anxiety and improve sleep or mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal boundaries that can help with anger, impulsive behavior, and relationship strain.Nicholas treats finding the right approach as a shared process. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, and then try methods that fit the client’s needs. If an approach feels off, he adjusts it together with the client so therapy stays useful.
Online therapy makes sessions more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and teaching of skills, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging lets clients check in between appointments or use shorter, frequent touchpoints. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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