About Nicole
Nicole Phelan is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Maine. She has nine years of experience supporting people who are coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, and a wide range of life stresses. Her manner is warm and straightforward, and she aims to help clients feel heard while working toward practical change.
Nicole brings direct, interactive sessions to the work. She often combines conversation with hands-on tools and simple exercises to practice between meetings.
Background and approach
She encourages people to build everyday habits that support mood and coping rather than only talking about problems. Many clients have come to her for help with family and parenting issues, attachment concerns, and the lasting effects of abuse or traumatic events. Nicole also supports people dealing with attention differences, eating concerns, bipolar mood patterns, and identity-related stress.
She pays attention to how relationships and past experiences shape current struggles. Her approach draws from several evidence-informed methods, including cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment concepts, attachment-based perspectives, and motivational interviewing. Nicole aims to match the strategy to the person's goals, breaking big problems into manageable steps.
Outside the therapy room she values time in nature and often suggests outdoor activities as a way to boost mood and self-worth. People who want a straightforward, compassionate clinician who emphasizes practical skills may find her style a good fit.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Nicole commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying out different behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, helps people notice what matters to them, accept difficult feelings, and take steps toward values-based living.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. They will check in and adapt the plan as progress is made so the approach stays useful and practical.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well with limited bandwidth or when hands-free interaction is needed, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, family, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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