About Nicole
Nicole Palubniak is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in New Jersey who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She meets individuals where they are and aims to make therapy clear and practical. Nicole focuses on building tools that fit everyday life rather than using jargon-filled therapy talk.
Nicole uses approaches that emphasize skills and small changes that add up. She draws on methods that help people notice thoughts and behaviors, practice emotional regulation, and set workable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. With six years of clinical experience, Nicole works with a broad range of concerns. These include anger, addictions, grief, sleep and eating issues, parenting strain, and challenges tied to ADHD or bipolar mood shifts.
She also addresses attachment and relationship difficulties, codependency, and the effects of abuse or domestic violence. Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, dialectical behavior strategies, and motivational interviewing. In practice this means talking through thought patterns, learning coping skills for strong emotions, using present-moment awareness, and finding motivation for change.
Nicole helps people turn insights into manageable next steps. Nicole offers sessions through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Therapy follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
She conducts sessions in English and provides services from her New Jersey practice.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Nicole commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication when feelings run high.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicole collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and daily routines. She adjusts techniques over time so the approach stays useful and realistic for the client's life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, chat can suit short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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