About Nicole
Nicole Allen is an LCSW who focuses on practical, skills-based therapy. She helps people tackle stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD difficulties, and parenting concerns with straightforward tools. Her approach emphasizes small, manageable changes that add up over time.
Nicole listens for patterns that link past experiences to current struggles. She uses simple skill-building like re-framing thoughts, practicing gratitude, and adding self-care habits. Sessions aim to leave people with clear steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes ten years of clinical practice in Illinois. That experience shaped a down-to-earth style that mixes evidence-informed methods with a warm, nonjudgmental attitude. Nicole draws from several therapy approaches to match what each person needs.
In a typical session she helps people name what’s most urgent, sort through options, and practice a new coping skill. She often focuses on stressors such as career pressure, relationship strain within families, sleep troubles, compassion fatigue, and transitions like divorce or caregiving changes. Nicole also offers support around attachment and adoption-related issues, feelings of abandonment or emptiness, codependency, and financial worry.
She aims to make therapy feel useful and doable, not overwhelming. Her goal is to help people build steady routines and clearer priorities that fit their life. People who choose her can expect a collaborative process.
Nicole uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered work, and mindfulness exercises to tailor each plan.
How specific approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and commit to actions that match their values. Online ACT sessions often include exercises to clarify values and short, practical tasks to practice between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through structured exercises and homework. In remote CBT, clients and the therapist work together on thought records, behavior experiments, and step-by-step plans that can be tracked between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicole will help figure out which methods fit a person’s goals, strengths, and daily routine. She blends techniques when needed and checks in often to make sure the plan is useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick updates, mood tracking, or practicing a short skill during the day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules while still using the same therapeutic tools as in-person care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Money and financial issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Illinois, North Dakota, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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