About Nicole
Nicole Henning is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Pennsylvania with ten years of experience. She uses practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Nicole emphasizes clear goals and everyday tools that can be used between sessions.
Nicole favors cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build healthier patterns. She also draws on attachment-informed ideas to look at how connections shape feelings and behavior.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on learning coping skills, improving communication, and planning small steps toward change. Her background includes work in correctional settings and supporting people with substance use histories. She has also taught psychology and brings that educational perspective into sessions.
Nicole often integrates mindfulness and trauma-aware practices when they fit a person’s needs. Nicole pays attention to life domains that affect mental health - physical, emotional, and social factors all matter. She helps clients set realistic goals, add self-care, and develop strategies to manage intensity.
The work aims to be practical and steady rather than rushed. People who benefit most tend to want structured tools and an emphasis on skills. Nicole provides straightforward feedback and encourages small, measurable changes.
She offers video, phone, chat, and text-based sessions to fit different schedules and preferences.
How Nicole’s Approaches Work Online
Nicole uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on short-term strategies and homework tasks that can be practiced between sessions to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to explore how relationships shape emotions and patterns. This approach can help with intimacy issues, relationship distress, and understanding how past connections influence present reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean combining CBT skills, attachment work, and mindfulness practices over time.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is helpful for in-depth skill practice and face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a work break. Chat and text work well for ongoing check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around life commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English