About Nicole
Nicole Shaddix-Olsen is a licensed counselor who brings a calm, practical approach to common life struggles. She is an LCPC and an LPC with nine years of clinical experience. Nicole focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, and coping with life changes.
She creates a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most. Conversations focus on real-life solutions and small steps. Nicole listens for patterns in relationships and emotional reactions and helps clients try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Her work often draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early bonds shape current relationships. She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities, and she brings skills from mindfulness and DBT when emotion regulation or intense stress is present. EMDR may be used for processing trauma when appropriate.
Nicole has supported people dealing with grief, addiction concerns, identity issues including LGBT matters and gender dysphoria, and challenges like chronic illness, caregiving stress, or ADHD-related difficulties. She pays attention to family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, and communication breakdowns. Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs.
Nicole helps set goals, practice new skills, and plan for setbacks. She aims to help clients build clearer boundaries, steadier emotions, and stronger relationships over time.
How Nicole's approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current bonds. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to notice those patterns and practice new ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own priorities and goals. In remote sessions the therapist follows what matters most to the client, asking questions and reflecting to help clarify next steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicole will collaborate with each client to choose which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That decision is revisited over time so the plan can change as progress is made or new challenges arise.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for relationship work and skills practice. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support between-session coaching, quick reflections, or ongoing check-ins during busy routines. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or when travel is difficult.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri, Florida
- Languages
- English