About Nick
Nick Livingston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He aims to create a calm, non-judgmental space where people can talk through what’s happening and find practical steps forward.
Nick uses straightforward methods to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. He leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change patterns that cause distress and Client-Centered techniques to keep sessions focused on the person’s goals.
Background and approach
Mindfulness tools and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are added when coping and emotion regulation are a priority. He has seven years of experience working with a range of concerns including addictions, sleep problems, ADHD, career stress, and compassion fatigue. He also supports people navigating life transitions, chronic illness, attachment issues, and identity-related stressors including LGBT concerns.
His background includes work with children and teens, and he offers approaches that include play-based strategies for parents wanting more connection with their child. Nick views medication, including medical marijuana, as one part of some people’s care when appropriate. He says counseling can work alongside these choices to build coping skills and clarify goals.
The work is collaborative and practical, not prescriptive. To begin, Nick asks people to identify a few concrete goals. Sessions focus on small, doable steps that fit daily life.
He encourages steady progress over quick fixes and adjusts plans based on what’s working for each person.
How Nick Uses Practical Approaches Online
Nick draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to guide online sessions. CBT focuses on spotting and testing thoughts and behaviors that keep someone stuck, which can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and mood. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the conversation focused on what matters to the person, with the therapist listening and reflecting to help clarify goals.He also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when strong emotions or mood instability are present. DBT skills teach concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal techniques that people can practice between sessions to reduce overwhelm.
Finding the right mix of methods is a team effort. He works collaboratively to pick approaches that fit a person’s goals, needs, and daily routine. Plans are adjusted over time based on what proves most helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls let people work face-to-face from anywhere in Oklahoma, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and chat or text can be useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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