About Nicole
Nicole Jacobson is an AASW social worker with 20 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief and depression. She combines practical problem-solving with steady, respectful listening to help people manage day-to-day demands. Nicole draws on her own experience as a parent of children with disabilities to understand the pressures carers face.
Nicole has postgraduate certificates in Play Therapy and in Assessment and Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Background and approach
She is familiar with Circle of Security attachment ideas and brings that understanding to parenting concerns. She helps parents talk through everyday struggles and develop workable routines that fit their family life. Her work also addresses compassion fatigue and caregiver stress, offering strategies to reduce overwhelm and rebuild energy.
Nicole has experience with adoption and foster care, ageing and geriatric issues, attachment matters, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image and isolation. She takes a practical approach to communication problems, life purpose and midlife transitions. Nicole has lived in remote Aboriginal communities and has family connections who are First Nations people.
That background informs her sensitivity to cultural context and to different ways of living. She aims to meet each person with respect and cultural awareness. Sessions are tailored to the individual.
Nicole and the client work together to set goals and choose simple tools to try between sessions. She emphasises steady progress rather than quick fixes, and supports people as they build more manageable routines and clearer priorities.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Nicole draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasises attachment-informed practices such as Circle of Security ideas, which help people improve caregiver-child interactions, understand emotional needs and build safer patterns of relating. Another approach uses play-informed methods where appropriate, using simple activities and guided interactions to help parents and children connect and process difficult feelings. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicole will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together they decide which techniques to try. This collaborative process means the plan is adjusted as progress is made and new priorities emerge. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and demonstrations, phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or hands-free check-ins, live chat can be used for brief check-ins between sessions, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection and homework. These options provide flexibility for people juggling parenting, work and caring responsibilities, and allow continuity when travel or health issues make in-person visits harder.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Phobias
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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