About Nicole
Nicole Merhaut is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Florida. She brings eight years of experience to sessions and focuses on practical ways to manage stress and anxiety. Her style is straightforward and caring, aimed at helping people take small, useful steps toward their goals.
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice how thoughts and actions connect. That approach is paired with Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, short-term goals.
Background and approach
Together these methods aim to reduce worry, ease mood struggles, and tackle unhelpful patterns. Nicole has a background working in community mental health roles, including case management and master level practitioner positions. Those roles gave her hands-on experience with a wide range of concerns such as depression, addiction, and eating-related issues.
She also has experience with family conflict, blended family issues, and divorce and separation matters. She supports people coping with chronic illness and pain, ADHD, autism and Asperger syndrome, and the stresses that come with parenting and caregiving. Sessions are centered on practical skills - managing triggers, improving communication, and building routines that fit real life.
Nicole describes her approach as warm and non-judgmental. She works collaboratively to set goals, try small experiments, and adjust strategies as needed. Her aim is to help each person move toward clearer thinking, steadier mood, and better daily functioning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Nicole often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people see how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In practice this means identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them with small experiments, and changing behaviors that feed anxiety or low mood. Solution-Focused Therapy is also part of her work and it centers on clear, short-term goals. That approach focuses on strengths and what a person wants to see change next, so sessions move quickly toward practical steps.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Nicole will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then shape sessions accordingly. The process is collaborative - goals are set together, progress is checked, and strategies are adjusted based on what helps most.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can work when a camera isn’t ideal or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text can be helpful for brief check-ins, quick coping tools, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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