About Nicole
Nicole Onorato Hunter is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, and difficulties with self-esteem or body image. She supports people coping with trauma, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. Nicole practices in Georgia and communicates in English.
Her approach is practical and collaborative. She uses clear tools to help people reframe unhelpful thoughts, build emotional skills, and create healthier habits.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, doable steps that fit into everyday life. Nicole aims to make therapy feel straightforward and relevant to the issues someone brings. Nicole draws from several evidence-based methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, mindfulness techniques, and elements of the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are involved.
She blends these to match each person’s goals rather than using a single rigid method. Nicole values working with clients to untangle the stories that shape how they think and relate to others. She helps people identify patterns like codependency, communication struggles, fear of abandonment, and commitment worries, then crafts strategies to change them.
Her style is direct yet compassionate, with an emphasis on building self-awareness and practical skills. People can expect honest feedback and structured exercises alongside conversations about meaning and values. Over time the work aims to reduce distress, improve relationships, and increase daily functioning.
Nicole has twelve years of experience as a counselor and brings that background into each session.
Online approaches that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through step-by-step exercises, which can ease symptoms of anxiety, mood concerns, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help with intimacy, abandonment fears, and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicole works together with clients to pick or combine methods that match goals and preferences. She will check in about what helps, adjust techniques, and teach practical skills that can be used between sessions so therapy feels relevant and collaborative.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use face-to-face conversation from home, while phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, writing through emotions, or staying connected between appointments. These options give flexibility for scheduling and for choosing how to communicate during the process.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Colorado
- Languages
- English