About Nina
Nina Puckett is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Hawaii. She started her professional path after recovering from an eating disorder and now draws on that experience to help others who face similar struggles. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aiming to make reaching out feel less intimidating.
Nina focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, eating and food-related issues, self esteem, and depression. She also works on body image, obsessions and compulsions, self-harm, and women's issues.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and directed toward practical steps that fit a client's daily life. In the therapy room she creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through difficult thoughts and feelings. She listens closely and helps clients break problems into smaller, manageable goals.
That can mean building routines, testing new coping tools, or shifting unhelpful patterns that keep people stuck. Nina draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide work with compulsions, eating concerns, and anxiety. She emphasizes collaboration and respects each person's pace, allowing clients to set priorities and grow at a steady rate.
Her lived experience with recovery informs how she supports motivation and resilience. People who want straightforward, empathetic help with anxiety, body image, or eating-related struggles often find her style approachable. She encourages small steps and real-world practice so change carries over outside sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Many clients benefit from evidence-based techniques that focus on changing behavior and reorganizing daily routines. One common approach helps people break down difficult habits into smaller steps, use exposure to reduce anxiety and compulsions, and practice new responses until they feel more natural. This can be helpful for anxiety, OCD symptoms, and certain eating-related rituals.Another useful method targets thoughts and beliefs that keep people feeling stuck. It teaches how to notice unhelpful thinking patterns, test them against real-life evidence, and try alternative ways of interpreting situations. This work often reduces worry and helps with low self esteem and depressive thinking.
Figuring out which approach will fit best is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, consider the client's goals and preferences, and adjust methods over time. The plan evolves as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people connect face-to-face when scheduling works. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins and ongoing feedback between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fold therapy into daily life and practice skills where they matter most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Body image
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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