About Nicole
Nicole Phelan is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Maine with nine years of practice. She greets clients with a straightforward, warm approach and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, ADHD, and the strain of parenting and family problems. Her style balances direct feedback with compassion so people know what to expect in sessions.
Nicole draws on several evidence-informed approaches to tailor sessions to each person. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful feelings while focusing on values-based actions. Attachment-based ideas guide work around relationship patterns and early caregiving influences. Sessions emphasize practical steps.
Nicole often suggests simple in-the-moment skills for managing stress, short behavioral experiments to test new habits, and ways to communicate more clearly in relationships. She also encourages time outdoors when that fits a client’s life, since nature activities can boost mood and confidence. Clients can expect an interactive partnership where goals are reviewed and adjusted.
Nicole aims to empower people to take manageable steps toward a more satisfying life. She talks plainly about options and helps set realistic, observable goals. Therapy is offered in English and provided via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Nicole’s practice follows a subscription model with sessions scheduled through the platform’s matching and booking process.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Nicole integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in ways that suit online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes by focusing on meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses brief experiments and practice to change unhelpful patterns, which works well in short video or phone sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicole will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust methods over time. Together they set clear, measurable goals and try approaches that feel practical and doable in everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets the therapist and client work face-to-face for skills practice and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework discussion, or shorter coaching-style touch points between longer sessions. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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