About Nichole
Dr. Nichole Nava helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with 15 years of clinical experience.
Her style is straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use right away. She draws on client-centered work to listen carefully to each person's experience. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to test new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Solution-focused ideas help set clear goals and track small wins along the way. Her background includes many years working in social services and education in Texas. That time shaped how she talks about complex issues like trauma, family strain, parenting stress, and grief.
Her practice also addresses concerns related to identity, intimacy, and caregiver fatigue. Sessions tend to focus on what’s most pressing now, and on building simple skills to manage anxiety and mood. She supports people dealing with relationship and communication problems, adoption and attachment concerns, body image, and related challenges listed in her specialties.
People who choose her often want a practical, compassionate approach that balances listening with concrete tools. She aims to help clients move from feeling stuck to taking small, manageable steps toward change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on hearing each person’s story without judgment and working from their priorities. This approach helps when someone needs space to be understood and to name what matters most to them.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people with anxiety and depression learn to test unhelpful thoughts and try manageable behavior changes to reduce distress.
Solution-focused therapy emphasizes clear goals and small steps. It is useful when someone wants fast, practical strategies and a plan to move forward from a specific problem.
Choosing the right combination of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods together, and adjust the plan based on what works best for the client. This helps tailor sessions to individual needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls work well for deeper conversations, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging are options for quick check-ins or brief notes between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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