About Nicole
Nicole Deisher is a licensed social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. She is an Ohio-based clinician with LCSW and LISW credentials and about 11 years of professional experience. She aims to create a straightforward, supportive space where clients can talk through what matters most to them.
Nicole centers each session on the person's own story and strengths. She helps people identify small, practical changes they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and steps rather than long lists of theory. Her approach combines tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy with mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. That mix supports emotion regulation, problem solving, and shifting unhelpful thinking patterns.
Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants to build readiness for change or address substance use concerns. Nicole has experience helping people with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and a wide range of mood and self-esteem issues. She also works with concerns tied to attachment, adoption and foster care, autism spectrum traits, and communication problems.
People who choose her often want practical strategies and a collaborative partner. She frames progress as steady effort and learning, not instant fixes. Nicole encourages honest conversation and concrete plans that fit everyday life.
Using practical approaches online
Nicole often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns. CBT involves identifying specific thoughts and testing them, then practicing new behaviors to improve mood and daily functioning.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT techniques are useful when strong emotions or relationship conflict make daily life harder.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Nicole works with each person to match techniques to their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring. She checks in often to adjust strategies so they stay useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls approximate an in-person visit when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people use skills, track progress, or get brief support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Virginia, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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