About Nikkia
Nikkia Matthews is a Licensed Master Social Worker who has practiced in Michigan for over 11 years. She brings steady, practical support when stress, anxiety, grief, or major life changes feel overwhelming. Her approach is direct and compassionate, focused on helping people build skills they can use every day.
She helps people who are navigating relationship conflicts, parenting strain, career transitions, addiction concerns, and issues tied to trauma and loss.
Background and approach
Nikkia also works with concerns around self-esteem, body image, attachment and abandonment wounds, codependency, and intimacy-related worries. Sessions aim to make difficult problems easier to manage, one step at a time. Nikkia uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, and client-centered work.
That means sessions often focus on clarifying values, noticing unhelpful thinking, improving emotional connection, and practicing new behaviors between meetings. She mixes practical tools with gentle reflection. Her style is collaborative and hands-on.
Nikkia helps people set clear goals and then teaches concrete strategies to reach them. She also guides short-term coaching plans when someone needs focused help for a specific problem. People who connect best with her tend to want straightforward feedback, useful exercises to practice, and space to process feelings about relationships, parenting, career, or trauma.
Nikkia encourages realistic change and celebrates small gains along the way.
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that align with those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions by shifting focus from struggling with feelings to meaningful forward steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills so people can notice patterns and practice different responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nikkia will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and goal oriented.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or on the go. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or steady support between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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