About Nicole
Nicole Reineri is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who blends practical approaches with a warm, person-centered style. She draws on several therapy methods to help people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, depression, addiction concerns, grief, parenting challenges, and life changes. Nicole writes plainly and meets people where they are so conversations feel manageable from the first session.
She has a master’s degree in professional counseling from Lindenwood University and an undergraduate degree in psychology.
Background and approach
Before focusing on counseling, Nicole worked in vocational rehabilitation, pain management, drug and alcohol addiction services, and applied behavior analysis. Her practicum experience included group work with at-risk students and individual crisis counseling at a high school. Nicole uses an eclectic mix of methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and existential ideas.
In sessions she helps people sort through thoughts, name feelings, and practice small changes that fit their life. She emphasizes acceptance, understanding, and steady growth rather than quick labels or one-size-fits-all fixes. Clients can expect straightforward conversations and goal-focused work.
Nicole also taught introductory psychology at the college level and continues to see people through independent practice in Missouri. Her approach aims to support steady progress toward clearer decisions and more manageable days.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Work
Nicole draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to guide online work. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present, which helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. CBT concentrates on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Nicole works collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person's goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they try ideas, track what helps, and adjust the plan based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy work around busy lives. Video can support deeper conversational work and visual cues, phone calls are useful for shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth situations, and messaging or live chat can help people check in between sessions or fit support into a tight schedule. These options give flexibility to use approaches like ACT and CBT in ways that suit each person.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English