About Nichole
Nichole Garcia is a licensed master social worker with 13 years in behavioral health. She began her career supporting children and teens in a residential shelter and later moved into adult services. Her work includes experience with anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, trauma, substance use, eating concerns, and ADHD.
She practices from Michigan and offers services in English. She earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Wayne State University in 2012 and completed an accelerated Master of Social Work in 2013.
Background and approach
Early internships included homeless shelters, residential facilities, and a psychiatric ward. Those experiences shaped her practical approach to daily stress and crisis situations. In community mental health settings she worked with adults facing intense mood and behavioral challenges.
She has focused time on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and has attended trainings in prolonged exposure, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, eating disorder work, and substance use disorders. Those learning opportunities inform how she structures sessions and skills practice. Nichole aims for straightforward, honest partnerships.
She emphasizes clear communication and wants clients to feel able to ask questions. Sessions tend to focus on building coping skills, managing emotions, and setting small, realistic goals. People who reach out can expect a calm, direct style that combines practical skill-building with space to process hard feelings.
Nichole frames progress as steady steps rather than quick fixes, and she collaborates with each person to find what works best.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people live in line with their values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when anxiety or avoidance gets in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills for intense emotions and relationship struggles.Nichole treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with the client about goals, test methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process means the therapy method can change as needs and progress evolve.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills coaching, phone can be a simple check-in or for lower bandwidth, chat works for quick exchanges or brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing skills practice between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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