About Nicole
Nicole Wheeler is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with six years of counseling experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, grief, sleep issues, and mood conditions like depression and bipolar disorder. She also works with ADHD, trauma and abuse, and LGBTQ concerns.
Nicole uses straightforward tools to help people manage daily struggles and feel more in control. Nicole draws on a mix of cognitive and mindfulness-based methods in her work.
Background and approach
She teaches skills for recognizing unhelpful thinking, building coping strategies, and changing routines that get in the way of feeling better. Sessions often include skill practice, problem solving, and planning small steps clients can try between meetings.
She has a longer history in the mental health field beyond her counseling years and has worked with adoption and foster care issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and chronic illness. She also addresses codependency, communication problems, dissociation, fertility concerns, and issues around guilt and forgiveness.
Nicole uses elements from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy. She includes habit-reversal strategies and exposure-based techniques when appropriate for conditions like OCD and body-focused repetitive behaviors. Her style emphasizes collaboration and practical steps that fit a person’s life.
People who choose her typically want clear tools and steady support for managing change, coping with strong emotions, and improving everyday functioning. Nicole invites prospective clients to share more about their concerns so she can help determine the best path forward.
How Nicole Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then identify values-based actions to move forward; it can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and low mood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple attention exercises that reduce stress and help with emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Nicole will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then recommend the approaches that seem most likely to help. That decision is collaborative and can evolve as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for fuller conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit busy schedules or work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, coaching-style support, and ongoing reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and try new skills in real life while working with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English