About Nichole
Nichole Molnar brings a practical, evidence-informed approach to therapy. She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with ten years of experience. Nichole focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship concerns.
She also helps people coping with grief, trauma, parenting strain, and ADHD-related challenges. Nichole uses straightforward techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She combines this with mindfulness skills to build calm and focus in busy lives. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas also appear in her work to help people clarify values and make meaningful changes. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person.
She listens first, then helps set small, doable steps toward concrete goals. Many clients work on communication, setting boundaries, managing caregiver or compassion fatigue, and resolving attachment or abandonment worries. Her background includes ten years of clinical practice in Illinois as an LCPC.
That experience covers a wide range of concerns from first responder stress to family problems and issues around intimacy, commitment, and codependency. Nichole adapts methods to fit what a person needs rather than using a single formula. People who choose her can expect practical tools, repeated skill practice, and a focus on what helps day to day.
The work is steady and goal-oriented, with attention to emotions and how they show up in relationships and behavior.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and then take small steps toward those values. In online sessions that might mean setting short, achievable actions between meetings and checking progress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. CBT works well over video or phone because skills and homework can be reviewed together during the session. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and build focus; these practices are easy to introduce and practice in text or live chat as well as in real time.^Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. If something doesn't fit, adjustments are made so the work stays useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls let you work face to face from wherever you are, phone sessions can be lighter on bandwidth, live chat supports short check-ins, and text messaging lets you reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice skills consistently while fitting therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving routines.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English