About Nicole
Nicole Spahl is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona with 27 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Nicole centers sessions on the person in front of her and aims to create a calm, steady space for difficult conversations.
Her work often begins with building a trusting relationship. She uses attachment-informed ideas to understand how past patterns shape current feelings and relationships.
Background and approach
Nicole also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new responses. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth. Nicole helps clients learn skills for managing panic, mood swings, and overwhelming stress.
She supports parents navigating postpartum concerns and those adjusting to major life changes. She also helps people who struggle with self-esteem, communication problems, or isolation. Nicole describes her style as nonjudgmental and encouraging.
She offers reflective feedback and challenges when it helps clients move forward. The aim is to help each person find clearer choices and fewer repeated patterns. Over nearly three decades she has worked with many concerns tied to relationships and emotional regulation.
Areas of attention include attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, domestic violence recovery, and compassion fatigue. Nicole welcomes individuals who want to make steady, practical change in how they cope and connect.
How Nicole’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional patterns. Online sessions use conversations to identify those patterns and practice new ways of connecting and responding in close relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions Nicole helps clients spot unhelpful thoughts, try small behavioral experiments, and track changes between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicole will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods over time. That collaborative process helps tailor the plan to each person’s needs rather than sticking to a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone calls can fit a tight schedule or lower bandwidth settings. Live chat and messaging allow short check-ins, written skill practice, or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain regular work on anxiety, relationships, and coping skills while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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