About Nicole
Nicole Brevig is a licensed mental health counselor in Iowa with nine years of clinical experience. She supports people facing anxiety, depression, complex trauma, and relationship struggles. Nicole focuses on practical steps clients can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.
She helps people build resilience and a clearer sense of self. Sessions often include work on communication, self-love, boundaries, and recovering after sexual assault or other abuse.
Background and approach
Nicole also supports those coping with chronic illness, chronic pain, and dissociation by addressing both emotional and daily-life impacts. Nicole takes a collaborative, compassionate approach. She listens first, then helps create goals that fit each person’s life.
Treatment plans are shaped around what someone needs now and what they hope to change over time. Conversations in sessions are practical and down-to-earth. Clients learn coping skills, ways to handle relationship tension, and strategies to manage mood and stress.
Nicole emphasizes small, sustainable steps that add up to real change. Her work is grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques applied to life problems. Nicole draws from a range of approaches to match the person and the issue.
People find it useful that she balances emotional understanding with concrete tools to try between sessions.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Nicole uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. One common approach involves helping people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and lift mood by giving clear tools to practice between meetings. Another approach focuses on grounding and processing after trauma, using paced steps to reduce overwhelm and rebuild a sense of safety and control.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Nicole works with each person to understand their goals, symptoms, and daily routines, then suggests techniques to try. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, so clients have a say in the direction of care.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people keep face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, manage energy levels, or follow up between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English