About Nicole
Nicole Lewandowski is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She offers a warm, interactive style and focuses on listening first to understand each person's concerns. Her approach is respectful and nonjudgmental so people can feel understood as they talk about difficult experiences.
Nicole blends several practical methods to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered conversations to help people clarify goals, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and trauma-informed tools when past harm shapes current struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to what feels manageable for the individual. She often helps people who are coping with grief, trauma or abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, caregiving strain, and work-related stress. Nicole also supports those coping with mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression, and she lists ADHD among her focus areas.
She works with concerns about sleep, eating, self-esteem, and anger as well. In sessions she combines practical skills training with narrative work to reshape how people tell their own stories. Mindfulness and emotion regulation skills from dialectical behavior approaches are used when strong feelings interfere with daily life.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing techniques are part of her toolkit when addressing traumatic memories. Nicole aims to tailor treatment plans so they fit each person's life and goals. She encourages small, steady steps and collaborative planning.
Her goal is to help people feel more in control and more able to handle day-to-day challenges.
How Nicole’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person sets the pace and goals. In practice this means sessions start with understanding your priorities and then shaping conversations to meet them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify thoughts and behaviors that get in the way and teaches straightforward exercises to change routines and reactions. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related planning challenges, and stress management.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Nicole will collaborate with each person to decide whether CBT tools, client-centered conversations, or DBT skills are most helpful for current goals. That plan can change over time as progress and needs evolve, and adjustments are made together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill practice and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible ways to share updates, practice skills between sessions, or schedule brief check-ins. These options make therapy more practical for busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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