About Nicole
Nicole Garza is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, mood changes, addiction, grief, and relationship strain. Nicole speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone worried about starting therapy.
She uses straightforward talk therapy and practical tools to help people manage symptoms and cope with life changes. Nicole draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment techniques, and attachment-focused work to address patterns that keep people stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions center on building trust and a working plan that fits each person’s goals. Her background includes work in multiple states and time in the U.S. Army, which shaped her awareness of diverse life experiences.
That variety informs how she thinks about stress, caregiver strain, and first responder issues. Nicole also helps people dealing with substance use concerns, domestic violence history, and complicated family dynamics. In sessions she prioritizes clear goals and steady progress.
She uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions, and CBT-style exercises to change unhelpful thinking. Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about closeness, boundaries, and trust. Nicole offers a direct, respectful style and focuses on small, practical changes that add up.
She helps people clarify values, rebuild routines, and reduce the hold of anxiety or shame. For many clients this means better sleep, clearer decisions, and more stable relationships over time.
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps in that direction while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. It can help people stuck in worry, avoidance, or low motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses hands-on exercises to change unhelpful patterns that feed anxiety or depression. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current trust, closeness, and boundary problems, and it helps people build healthier ways of relating.Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, current life demands, and personal preferences. Sessions may shift over time as needs change and progress is tracked together.
Online therapy makes these approaches more accessible through flexible formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and skills demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit shorter breaks or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, between-session support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules while working toward clearer thinking, calmer responses, and more stable relationships.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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