About Nicole
Nicole Flores, LMSW, focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She listens without judgment and aims to make conversations feel easy to start. Her approach is calm and straightforward, so people can talk about what feels hardest.
She draws on 20 years of experience in Michigan. That background includes supporting people through trauma, grief, self-esteem struggles, and mood challenges. Nicole uses plain talk and steady guidance to help people notice patterns and try small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Nicole often uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding. She also uses client-centered approaches that follow each person’s pace and priorities. Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help with overwhelm and sleeplessness.
Sessions focus on practical steps. She helps people set specific, doable goals and checks progress together. Solution-focused ideas are used when someone wants quick, targeted changes for daily life challenges.
Trauma-focused methods are used when past events keep causing distress. Nicole helps people build safety and coping skills before working through difficult memories. The work moves at a pace that each person can manage.
Nicole respects that every person’s story is different. She supports people coping with eating or body image concerns, obsessive thoughts, panic, postpartum mood changes, and identity-related stress. Her style is supportive, patient, and goal oriented.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters to the person in the room. The therapist listens closely, follows the client's pace, and helps people clarify goals and values. This approach is useful for building trust, improving self-esteem, and working through everyday worries.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. It teaches practical exercises to test negative thoughts and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, panic, and low mood. Mindfulness therapy adds simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve sleep and focus.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. Together they pick or blend approaches and adjust methods as progress is made, keeping the work collaborative and goal focused.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for richer conversations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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