About Nicole
Nicole Durant is a licensed clinician in Ohio with 13 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier and helps people cope with big life changes. Nicole aims to create a calm, respectful space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken aloud without judgment.
She uses straightforward conversation and active listening to help people identify what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions center on skills that can reduce anxiety and improve communication. Nicole blends evidence-informed approaches to match each person’s needs and pace. Nicole often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different responses.
She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the work grounded in what the person wants and feels. Mindfulness practices are introduced when they can help manage strong emotions or stress. Her work includes attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, family of origin issues, caregiving stress, guilt and shame, and struggles with control.
She supports people facing panic attacks, phobias, obsessive or compulsive thoughts, and midlife shifts. Nicole speaks English and provides care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She describes starting therapy as a collaborative process and helps people shape goals that fit their life and schedule.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Nicole often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or low mood, and then practice different, more helpful responses. CBT is practical and skills-focused, which makes it easy to work on between sessions.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which puts the person’s experience and goals at the center of the work. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a collaborative plan based on what the person wants to change.
Finding the right method is part of the process rather than a one-time decision. Nicole will talk with each person about goals, test what helps, and adjust the approach as needed. That collaborative planning helps match techniques to the client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy provides flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for a full session with visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, skill practice, or a way to process between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same therapeutic approaches you would in person.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English