About Nicole
Nicole Ernst is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, depression, and life transitions. Nicole speaks English and offers therapy to clients in Florida as well as international clients.
She uses clear, practical methods to help people manage symptoms and handle day-to-day challenges. In sessions she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and practice calmer responses.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy help set realistic goals and find small steps that make a difference. Nicole has long experience working with parenting concerns, relationship and family problems, grief, anger, self-esteem, and mood disorders. She also supports people coping with trauma, panic attacks, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and addiction issues.
Additional focus areas include body image, codependency, communication problems, and coping after disasters. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She helps people identify goals, try practical strategies, and adjust plans based on what works.
Sessions can include skill practice, behavioral experiments, and short-term problem solving. Nicole offers a range of online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Therapy is delivered through a subscription that can be canceled at any time and scheduling is arranged after completing a short matching questionnaire.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Nicole commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, panic attacks, and mood concerns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and breathing skills that reduce stress and improve emotional regulation.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people clarify goals and find internal motivation for change. That approach is useful for addictions, readiness to change, and setting manageable steps toward recovery. Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the work; she will collaborate with each person to decide what fits their goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, tracking progress between sessions, and ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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