About Nicole
Nicole Bakewell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and life changes. She offers a calm, direct style and aims to make therapy approachable for people juggling busy lives. Nicole writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person she meets.
She draws on eight years of clinical experience across community mental health and telehealth settings.
Background and approach
That background lets her translate practical tools into daily habits. Sessions often include straightforward problem solving, skill building for emotion regulation, and steps to improve sleep and coping patterns. Nicole uses a blend of approaches chosen to fit each client.
She leans on cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses attachment-focused work to address relationship patterns and emotional responses. Clients can expect a warm, nonjudgmental tone in sessions and clear ideas to try between meetings.
Nicole describes her role as supportive and goal-oriented, helping people find balance and move toward concrete improvements. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging options to make care easier to fit into a day. Nicole works with a wide range of concerns including depression, addictions, trauma, parenting stress, grief, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues.
How Nicole’s Approaches Work Online
Nicole often blends cognitive behavioral methods and attachment-based work to address anxiety and relationship patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with worry, sleep problems, and coping skills. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationship patterns influence emotions and reactions, which can help with intimacy, trust, and repeated conflict.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Nicole explores your goals, history, and preferences in early sessions and recommends techniques that fit your situation. She adjusts strategies as you try them and discusses what is or isn’t helpful so the plan evolves together.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let you work face to face, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or you prefer no camera, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or when travel is difficult, while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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