About Nicole
Nicole Shaddix-Olsen is a licensed counselor with nine years of clinical experience. She is licensed as an LCPC and an LPC and works from Florida. Nicole focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate relationship and family concerns.
She supports people coping with trauma and abuse and the aftereffects those experiences can bring. She also helps with depression, addictions, self-esteem struggles, grief, and life transitions. Her work includes support around parenting stresses, career worries, intimacy concerns, and ADHD-related challenges.
Background and approach
Nicole aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about hard things. She centers sessions on listening first, then building practical steps the person can try between meetings. She draws on attachment ideas to understand relationship patterns and uses DBT and mindfulness tools to teach emotion regulation skills.
Her approach can include somatic and EMDR-informed techniques when trauma work is appropriate, along with client-centered care that follows each person’s pace and goals. Nicole also addresses less-discussed areas like abandonment, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and questions about life purpose. People who choose her often want down-to-earth guidance and skills they can use right away.
She encourages moving at a steady, manageable pace so change feels possible. Nicole accepts international clients and offers sessions in English.
How proven approaches translate to online care
Nicole blends Attachment-Based Therapy with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people create healthier ways of relating. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication, which can be useful for anxiety, relationship strain, and anger.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicole will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest techniques to try. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan over time so the work stays practical and focused on day-to-day improvements.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper emotional work. Phone sessions are a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer brief support between sessions and can help keep momentum during busy weeks.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- 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
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri, Florida
- Languages
- English
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