About Nicole
Nicole Saunders is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship challenges. She has more than 21 years of experience and listens with respect and compassion. Nicole aims to create an approach that fits each person's needs and goals.
She works with people facing trauma and abuse, parenting strain, addiction, and mood concerns like depression or bipolar symptoms. Nicole also supports those dealing with career stress, compassion fatigue, sleep troubles, and identity or intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to adoption and foster care concerns, attachment matters, and neurodiversity including autism and Asperger syndrome. Nicole uses practical, talk-based methods and tailors sessions to what the client needs that week. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful habits, acceptance and commitment ideas to build values-based living, and attachment-informed work to improve close relationships.
Dialectical skills and client-centered listening are part of how she structures sessions. She provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can fit therapy into their routines. Nicole is licensed in Florida as an LMHC and brings experience from many clinical settings over two decades.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability. Nicole asks clients to complete an additional informed consent form before the first meeting so paperwork is ready and expectations are clear.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Nicole often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors; this approach works well for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another frequent tool she uses to clarify values and take small actions even when emotions are hard to change. Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and can help with intimacy, communication, and trust issues.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and preferences, then adjust methods as needed. Clients and the therapist check in regularly to see what is helping and what to change so the work stays practical and focused on real-life results.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be good for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or changing days while keeping continuity of care with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Washington
- Languages
- English