About Nicolette
Nicolette Ulstrom is a licensed marriage and family therapist with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, substance use concerns, self-esteem, and women's issues. Nicolette aims to help people reconnect with what matters and take manageable steps toward a more fulfilling life.
She earned a Master of Marriage and Family Therapy from Argosy University in Eagan, Minnesota, and has worked in family residential treatment settings.
Background and approach
That work emphasized growth within relationships and increased self-awareness. Those experiences shaped a collaborative, side-by-side style of care. Nicolette centers on people’s strengths and lived experiences.
She helps clients tell their stories and then consider how they want those stories to look going forward. This can include addressing attachment, codependency, body image, or adoption and foster care concerns, depending on what matters to the individual. Her approach draws on several practical therapy methods.
She uses client-centered talking, narrative techniques to reframe life events, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions. Motivational interviewing helps people facing change or substance use decisions. Nicolette structures sessions to be supportive and goal-focused.
She works to create a steady, encouraging space where people can practice new ways of relating, communicating, and making choices. Her work often includes issues around relationships, parenting stress, career transitions, grief, and coping with life changes.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people name what matters most, which can be useful for anxiety, self-esteem, and life transitions.Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving coping. It teaches tools for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication, which can help people feeling overwhelmed or reactive.
Emotionally-focused therapy centers on emotional connection and understanding patterns in relationships. It can help people address intimacy issues, attachment concerns, and relationship stress by mapping emotional responses and trying new ways of relating.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring. That allows techniques to be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online sessions offer flexibility and options to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls let people keep face-to-face interaction when helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to practice skills and stay connected to therapy while juggling daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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