About Nicole
Nicole Deisher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) practicing in Ohio. She brings 11 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Nicole focuses on practical steps people can use right away and meets each person where they are.
She believes the client knows their own story best and that their strengths matter. Nicole aims to help people build confidence, improve motivation, and find clearer ways to cope with life changes.
Background and approach
She encourages small, doable changes that add up over time. Nicole uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to strengthen emotional regulation. She also incorporates mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to create short-term goals and steady progress.
Her work covers a broad range of concerns including trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, sleep problems, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Nicole also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and family of origin questions. Sessions can be delivered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, so people can choose what fits their routine.
She works in English and provides services within Ohio.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Nicole uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot thinking patterns that feed anxiety and stress and then try different ways of responding. CBT focuses on clear steps and homework people can practice between sessions to see real change.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness. DBT-style tools can help with strong emotions, relationship strain, and impulsive behaviors.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Nicole will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and test what helps most. That collaborative process means treatment can shift to fit changing needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be a shorter check-in without needing a camera, and messaging or live chat can support between-session work or quick problem-solving. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and practice skills across real situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Virginia, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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