About Nicole
Nicole Saunders is a licensed mental health counselor with 21 years of experience. She focuses on practical steps people can take when anxiety, stress, or big life changes feel overwhelming. Nicole speaks plainly and offers steady support while you figure out what helps most.
She works with people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, grief, and issues around parenting and caregiving. Nicole also supports those dealing with addiction, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, bipolar disorder, and the fatigue that comes from caregiving or helping professions.
Background and approach
Nicole uses a blend of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people focus on values-based actions. Attachment-based and client-centered work guide how she builds a respectful, responsive connection in sessions.
Sessions can include short-term skills work or longer-term exploration depending on the concern. Nicole tailors the session flow and homework to what fits the client's life and goals. She offers later evening times during the week and some weekend availability.
Nicole is licensed in Florida as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC. She asks new clients to complete an additional informed consent form before the first session. Getting help is a step-by-step process and she aims to make that step clear and manageable.
How Nicole brings proven approaches to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and gently refocus on values and actions that matter. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to reduce worry and improve sleep and mood. This approach often includes short exercises to try between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions, which can help with intimacy concerns, abandonment issues, and relationship stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different methods to see what fits. Clients and therapist revise the plan as needed so sessions stay relevant to real life and current challenges.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow quick, flexible check-ins and written reflections between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Washington
- Languages
- English
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