About Nikki
Nikki Lewis-Clark is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Montana with 24 years of experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, parenting strain, and a wide range of life changes. Her manner is warm and direct, aimed at helping people feel heard while also focusing on practical steps forward.
She began her career helping families with reunification after neglect or abuse, and later worked with service members as a Diversity and Inclusion Counselor.
Background and approach
That background shapes a steady, clear approach when conversations get hard. Nikki listens, asks direct questions, and helps people find concrete tools to manage problems. Her sessions combine client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness.
She also draws on attachment-based and emotionally-focused ways of working when relationships are central to the concern. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and goals rather than following a single script. Nikki helps people learn skills for coping with worry, managing mood, improving sleep, and handling conflict.
She also supports work on self-esteem, grief, addictions, and career questions. Practical homework and short-term skill building are often part of the plan. People who prefer straightforward guidance alongside warmth tend to do well with her.
She accepts clients in English and offers online formats including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current reactions. This approach helps when worries or conflicts trace back to how people connect with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns for anxiety, mood, and sleep issues. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on feelings in close relationships and helps people name emotions and shift interaction patterns when intimacy or conflict is a concern.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, past efforts, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust methods over time, mixing techniques so the work matches the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can support brief check-ins, skills practice, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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