About Nicole
Nicole Spahl is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Parents and individuals facing relationship or parenting strain can expect practical support and steady guidance.
She uses clear, direct talk to help clients name problems and try new ways of coping. Nicole blends relationship-focused work with evidence-based techniques. She draws on attachment ideas to look at how early bonds affect present relationships.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice patterns of thinking and change unhelpful habits. Dialectical and emotionally-focused methods are used when strong emotions or relationship repair are central concerns. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person.
Nicole centers the client's goals and helps set small, concrete steps to reduce stress and build skills. She also addresses specific issues such as ADHD symptoms, postpartum mood changes, grief around adoption and foster care, and recurring panic or mood problems. Her style is warm but straightforward.
She encourages parents and individuals to try small changes and notice results. Therapy can include practicing new communication skills, grounding and mindfulness exercises, and strategies for managing anger and overwhelm. Nicole accepts people from different places and offers sessions in English.
She works with those coping with compassion fatigue, isolation, self-esteem struggles, and other life strains. Her aim is to help clients find clearer direction and greater day-to-day ease.
Approaches that guide online work and progress
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional reactions. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in connection and try new ways of relating in everyday life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and mood struggles and often includes short exercises to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose or blend methods based on their needs, goals, and what feels doable. That may mean trying a few strategies and keeping what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversation and teaching new skills. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text make quick check-ins and brief coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These options help people maintain continuity of care while managing work, family, and travel schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English