About Nicolle
Nicolle Atchison is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Washington. She brings five years of clinical experience and focuses on practical, straightforward support for people facing anxiety and other life stresses. Nicolle schedules evening and Saturday appointments to work around busy days.
Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions are meant to be a calm place to talk through what feels overwhelming. She aims to help people move from feeling stuck toward clearer choices and steadier days.
Background and approach
Nicolle uses methods that center the person in the room. She draws on client-centered practices to listen closely and build trust. Emotionally-focused ideas help identify and name hard feelings that affect relationships and self-worth.
She also brings elements of mindfulness and solution-focused work to sessions. Mindfulness tools support managing stress and staying present during difficult moments. Solution-focused techniques help set small, realistic goals and track progress between meetings.
Nicolle supports a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy questions, anger, parenting and family stress, career and life transitions, and self-esteem struggles. She also addresses issues like codependency, midlife questions, and coping with financial stress. People who prefer practical steps and thoughtful listening often find her style helpful.
The work is conversational and grounded in real-life problems, with a focus on what can change now. If evening or weekend sessions fit your schedule, Nicolle may be a good match.
How Nicolle’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful working relationship so people feel understood and can speak openly about anxiety, grief, or life changes. This approach helps when someone needs steady, nonjudgmental support to sort through difficult feelings.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on identifying and naming core emotions and how they shape relationships and self-worth. EFT can be useful for improving communication, reducing emotional reactivity, and strengthening connections that matter most.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will ask about goals, everyday routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she will suggest techniques to try and will adjust the plan as progress is tracked.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client work face-to-face when schedules conflict with daytime hours. Phone sessions are a good option when video would be difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or flexible follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into evenings and weekends and to use tools that match how a person prefers to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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