About Nicki
Nicki Nichols is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 16 years of clinical experience. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, or struggles with addiction. She uses a direct but compassionate style to help clients take the next step toward feeling better.
Nicki focuses on practical skills that can be used between sessions. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and on motivational interviewing to support changes in behavior.
Background and approach
For people coping with past hurt or abuse, she uses trauma-focused strategies to help process painful memories and reduce their impact on daily life. Her approach centers on respect, honesty, and accountability. Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then helps shape goals that make sense for each person.
She encourages small, achievable steps and tracks progress over time. Nicki has supported clients through issues related to abandonment, attachment, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and substance use. She also helps people facing communication or commitment problems, divorce and separation, and the complexities that can come with adoption or foster care histories.
Nicki practices in South Carolina and offers sessions in English. She provides care through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Nicki uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change the thought patterns that contribute to anxiety and low mood. CBT focuses on practical exercises and homework that often bring quick, concrete relief from symptoms. She also uses motivational interviewing to support people who want to make behavior changes, such as reducing substance use or improving daily routines; that approach helps people find their own reasons for change and build confidence.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicki will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. She adapts the plan over time based on progress and feedback so the work stays relevant and achievable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and more natural conversation. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Messaging or live chat works well for shorter updates, brief coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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