About Nina
Nina Escobar-Petersen is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and identity questions. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Her style aims to make therapy practical and understandable for busy lives.
Nina brings 15 years of clinical experience in Missouri to her sessions. She focuses on common concerns like depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and career stress.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with body image, attachment wounds, codependency, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she uses approaches that center the client's experience and goals. That includes client-centered work that follows the person’s lead, cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts, and EMDR for people processing traumatic memories.
She adapts methods to fit what each person needs in the moment. Nina emphasizes practical skills alongside deeper exploration. Clients learn tools to manage strong emotions, improve communication, and handle day-to-day triggers.
She also helps people explore identity and relationship patterns that show up across life. Her practice offers multiple ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions according to availability.
How her approaches translate to online work
Nina uses client-centered work to follow each person's pace and priorities, focusing on what feels most important in a session and helping people set realistic goals. This approach is useful for sorting out identity questions, relationship patterns, and everyday stressors.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT helps with anxiety, low mood, and stress by teaching practical strategies people can use between sessions. When trauma memory processing is needed, she may integrate EMDR to support people who are working through traumatic or highly distressing memories.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Nina collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She reviews progress regularly and adjusts plans so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone works well for shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, chat offers a way to work through issues in writing, and messaging supports ongoing check-ins and coaching-style prompts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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