About Nicole
Nicole Merhaut, LMFT, uses practical, goal-focused therapy to help people manage everyday challenges. She combines Cognitive Behavioral approaches with Solution-Focused techniques to address stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and ADHD-related concerns. Sessions are straightforward and geared toward real-life change.
Nicole trained in marriage and family therapy and brings eight years of clinical experience working in community mental health roles. She has supported people navigating depression, addiction concerns, anger, and trauma, and she has experience with autism spectrum issues and complex medical conditions.
Background and approach
Her background includes work as a case manager and master-level practitioner before becoming a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Florida. In sessions she helps clients identify unhelpful thoughts and try new coping behaviors. She also uses brief, goal-oriented conversations to find practical steps forward.
That mix can suit people who want both tools to manage symptoms and clear short-term goals to work toward. Nicole pays attention to family of origin topics, blended family dynamics, parenting stress, and co-parenting concerns. She also supports people dealing with eating and food-related issues, career transitions, and compassion fatigue.
Her approach aims to make therapy usable in daily life rather than only in the therapy room. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Nicole emphasizes collaboration and practical plans that clients can use between sessions.
She invites people to discuss their goals and take small, manageable steps toward them.
How CBT and Solution-Focused Therapy work online
Nicole uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In simple terms, CBT teaches skills to test unhelpful thoughts and try different actions to reduce distress, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related difficulties. Solution-Focused Therapy is short-term and goal-directed; it concentrates on the present and future and helps clients identify small, practical steps toward what they want to change.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Nicole collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their goals and daily life. She adjusts techniques based on what is helpful, combining skill-building with focused goal setting to make progress over time.
The online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or camera use is not possible, and chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or on-the-go coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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