About Nicole
Nicole Cassidy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 13 years of experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and challenges related to work and relationships. She also offers coaching-style support for motivation and life transitions.
Nicole treats people with respect and listens first to understand each person's story. She works from the view that clients know their lives best and brings curiosity rather than judgement.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at building skills and spotting patterns that get in the way of goals. Practical coping tools and clearer priorities are common outcomes of the work she does with people. Nicole uses a mix of approaches depending on what a person needs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and committed action when feelings are hard to change. Attachment-based ideas and client-centered listening guide how she builds trust and explores relationship patterns.
Many people come for help with ADHD-related challenges, parenting strain, trauma or intimacy issues. She also addresses workplace stress, social anxiety, and mood concerns like seasonal affective disorder. Nicole supports clients who identify as LGBT and those navigating non-monogamous relationships.
Her style is warm and pragmatic. She aims to empower people to try small, sustainable changes between sessions. The goal is better daily functioning, clearer direction, and more self-compassion over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Nicole integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into online work. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thought patterns and test small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or lift mood. ACT teaches how to notice difficult feelings, clarify personal values, and take meaningful steps even when emotions are uncomfortable.She approaches choices about method as a team effort. The therapist and client review goals, try a few techniques, and adjust based on what actually helps. That collaboration makes it easier to match approaches to concerns like ADHD-related struggles, workplace stress, or relationship patterns.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions work well for deeper conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or trouble-shooting in the moment. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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