About Nicole
Nicole Wheeler is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She brings six years of counseling experience and a long history in mental health to her work. Nicole writes plainly and listens closely to understand what is happening now for each person.
She focuses on practical skills you can use between sessions. That includes learning how thoughts influence feelings and building coping tools for difficult moments.
Background and approach
Nicole often uses mindfulness and cognitive strategies to reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Nicole has worked with people dealing with family and parenting challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, and the strain of caregiving. She also has experience with autism, obsessive habits such as skin picking, chronic illness, grief, and life transitions.
Her background includes helping people manage sleep problems, anger, and career stress as well. Her style is collaborative and calm. Nicole helps clients notice triggers, change unhelpful patterns, and practice new responses little by little.
She encourages self-compassion and reflection while guiding clients toward concrete steps they can take. Nicole offers several formats for remote sessions to fit different schedules. She asks people to share details about symptoms and history during intake so she can recommend the right path forward.
Many people come to her wanting clearer routines, less anxiety, or better ways to handle family stress.
How Nicole’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on accepting uncomfortable feelings while committing to small steps that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches skillful ways to change unhelpful thinking and habits. Both approaches are useful for anxiety, stress, and managing patterns like obsessive habits.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicole will talk with the client about goals, daily challenges, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan over time based on progress and preference.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you work through exercises face to face. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief support into a busy day. These options make it simpler to practice skills consistently and keep therapy part of an everyday routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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