About Nicole
Nicole Schellinger is a licensed counselor with 18 years of clinical experience. She holds a Master of Education in Mental Health Counseling and practices as an LPCC and LPC in South Carolina. Nicole aims to offer a warm, down-to-earth presence for people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxious thoughts.
She keeps sessions focused on each person's needs and goals. Conversations are straightforward and paced to match the client. Nicole listens, asks practical questions, and helps clients set small, manageable steps toward change.
Background and approach
Her work draws on several practical methods, including cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, and acceptance-based strategies. She also uses solution-focused techniques and motivational interviewing to help people find momentum when they feel stuck. These methods are used to address anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, trauma, mood issues, and sleep or eating problems.
Nicole has a long background in community behavioral health and addiction studies. That experience informs how she supports someone coping with life changes, grief, relationship stress, or compassion fatigue. She helps people manage panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, and the practical fallout of mood disorders.
Sessions can include skill practice, tracking progress, and focused planning for the week ahead. Nicole emphasizes clear communication and practical steps so clients can notice progress between sessions. She offers care in English and practices from South Carolina.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that align with what matters most. It can be useful for chronic anxiety, avoidance, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It often helps with panic attacks, obsessive thinking, and mood symptoms.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicole will discuss options and adjust methods based on goals, symptoms, and day-to-day needs. Clients and therapist work together to try techniques and pick what fits best for a person's situation.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can fit in short breaks or need less bandwidth, live chat works for focused check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to attend therapy from work, home, or while traveling and let people choose the format that best fits their schedule and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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