About Nicole
Nicole Schellinger is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 18 years of work in counseling. She brings a calm, approachable manner to sessions and focuses on meeting each person where they are. Nicole aims to create an understanding space and works with people on practical goals they set together.
She draws from a mix of methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment ideas, and motivational interviewing.
Background and approach
In sessions she helps people sort through stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship or family struggles. She also supports people dealing with addiction, trauma or changes like grief and career transitions. Nicole trained in addictions studies and completed a master’s in mental health counseling.
Much of her early work was in community behavioral health before moving into online practice. That background gives her experience with a wide range of concerns, from ADHD and obsessive symptoms to panic and seasonal mood changes. Her style is warm and goal-focused.
She listens first, then uses practical tools and short-term strategies when they fit. Sessions can include problem-solving, values-based work, and skills for managing emotions and impulses. Nicole offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging as ways to work together.
Sessions are scheduled through a subscription plan that can be canceled at any time, and appointments are arranged to match client needs.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Nicole commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and building practical skills to change them, which helps with anxiety, panic, mood problems, and obsessive symptoms. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages people to clarify their values and take committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present, which can be useful for stress, trauma recovery, and long-term behavior change.She also uses client-centered listening and motivational interviewing to support movement toward goals. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that fit, and adjust as progress is made. That helps people learn what works for them rather than following a single plan from the start.
Online sessions come in several practical formats: video calls for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, family, or treatment schedules and let people choose what feels most manageable while working on stress, relationships, addiction recovery, or mood concerns.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, South Carolina
- Languages
- English