About Nicole
Nicole Lewandowski is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns. She offers a calm, respectful approach and focuses on practical ways to make daily life feel more manageable. Nicole writes plans with each person she meets so goals are clear and concrete.
Her work is conversational and collaborative. Sessions aim to identify what feels overwhelming and then build small, doable steps toward change.
Background and approach
She uses tools from client-centered care to cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people practice new habits between sessions. Nicole has experience supporting people after physical or emotional trauma and with issues like grief, addictions, and compassion fatigue. She also helps those managing attention differences, mood disorders, or struggles with self-esteem and relationships.
She frames problems as understandable reactions rather than labels. Therapy with Nicole often blends skills practice, gentle reflection, and story work to shift how people relate to painful memories or patterns. She may introduce grounding or breathing exercises, thought-challenging strategies, and ways to notice strengths already present.
Progress is measured in small changes people can use day to day. Nicole works from Wisconsin and conducts sessions in English. She treats each person with sensitivity and aims to create a steady, practical path forward for people ready to make changes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the client feels understood and supported; online sessions let that conversation happen by phone or video and keep the focus on each person’s goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change thinking and behavior - it works well online because homework, thought records, and behavior experiments can be reviewed during a video call or by messaging. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness; those skills can be taught and practiced in remote sessions and reinforced with brief messages between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that match current needs and goals. That may mean starting with stabilization and skills practice, then introducing trauma-focused or narrative techniques as trust grows.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging lets people check in between appointments or use shorter touchpoints. These options make it easier to maintain steady progress without rearranging a whole day.
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What this therapist works with
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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
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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