About Nicole
Nicole Palubniak is a licensed professional counselor in New Jersey who helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, and low self-esteem. She works with individuals coping with grief, addiction, sleep and eating concerns, and the disruption of major life changes. Nicole aims to offer steady support and practical steps when emotions feel overwhelming.
Nicole draws from methods that focus on thoughts, skills, and present-moment awareness. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and build different habits.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills help with emotional regulation and reducing intense reactions. Mindfulness practices are woven in to increase calm and attention in daily life. Her work is collaborative and hands-on.
Clients can expect concrete tools, short exercises, and clear goals rather than only talking through problems. Sessions often include skill practice and homework to build confidence between meetings. Nicole has six years of clinical experience as an LPC - licensed professional counselor - in New Jersey.
That experience includes helping people with ADHD, relationship strain, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and issues tied to separation or loss. She also supports those managing identity and attachment concerns. Therapy with Nicole is offered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She speaks English and provides a practical, steady approach for people ready to try new ways of coping and connecting with their strengths.
How evidence-based skills translate to online care
Nicole often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts that lead to upsetting emotions and try different, more helpful responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep problems going. Dialectical Behavior Therapy supplies practical emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for intense feelings and relationship challenges. Mindfulness Therapy adds short practices to steady attention and reduce reactivity.Choosing the right mix of approaches is a shared process. Nicole discusses goals and preferences with each person and recommends which skills to prioritize. She checks in often and adjusts strategies based on how a person responds in real life, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and skills coaching, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins, homework review, or brief coping guidance between meetings. These options give flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels while keeping the focus on building concrete tools and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English