About Nicole
Nicole Wheeler is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with six years of counseling experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, and life transitions. Nicole pays attention to family and parenting concerns and supports those coping with trauma, grief, sleep struggles, and relationship strain.
She uses clear, practical methods in sessions. Nicole draws on mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral ideas to teach ways to notice thoughts, change unhelpful patterns, and build daily coping skills.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas and dialectical skills when those fit a person's goals. Nicole has a long background in mental health that informs her work with adoption and foster care issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and obsessive behaviors. That experience shapes how she creates step-by-step plans for change.
She explains tasks in plain language and helps people set realistic, measurable steps. Sessions focus on skills practice, problem solving, and small experiments clients can try between meetings. Nicole often includes habit reversal strategies and exposure-based techniques when working with repetitive behaviors and anxiety.
She encourages self-reflection, gentle behavior change, and learning to tolerate discomfort while moving toward chosen values. Nicole invites people to describe their current struggles in the intake details so she can match strategies to needs. She views therapy as a collaborative process and helps clients track progress over time.
How Nicole Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when uncomfortable feelings arise. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce distress and change behavior; it suits worry, low mood, and many stress-related problems. Mindfulness-based approaches teach simple awareness practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can be helpful for sleep problems, anger, and attention concerns.Figuring out which approach fits best is a collaborative step. The therapist will listen to current struggles, goals, and preferences, then suggest strategies to try. Clients and the therapist check progress together and adjust methods when needed so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet and practice skills. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for teaching and feedback. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let clients send updates, try short coaching moments, or get reminders about homework between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on skill building and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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