About Nicole
Nicole Forester welcomes people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and trauma. She also supports people facing relationship or intimacy challenges, career strain, parenting stress, and questions about life purpose. Nicole writes in a direct, plain way and invites honest conversation as a starting point for change.
Nicole is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, in Colorado and also holds an LPCC credential. She has sixteen years of clinical experience across inpatient units, outpatient addiction programs, intensive-outpatient groups, hospice settings, and in-home crisis work.
Background and approach
That range means she has worked with many kinds of problems and with people at different stages of recovery. In sessions she listens without judgment and encourages people to speak their full truth. She invites clients to be straightforward about what they need and what has or hasn't helped before.
The focus is on hearing what matters to the client and finding practical ways forward. Nicole draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Client-Centered therapy, and existential ideas. She uses these methods to help people notice what is most important to them, change unhelpful patterns, and improve emotional connection and meaning.
People can expect a collaborative, calm style aimed at building clarity and coping skills. Nicole recommends interviewing a therapist to find a good fit and is open to answering questions about the process before beginning work together.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and focus on meaningful action. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where values-driven choices matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical techniques to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on emotions and attachment patterns to help people improve closeness and communication in relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try specific strategies, and adjust the plan when something is not helping. Together they decide which methods match the client's needs and preferences rather than using one fixed method.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use facial cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible, on-the-go ways to stay connected between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California, Colorado, Utah
- Languages
- English
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