About Nicole
Nicole Saunders is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 21 years of experience. She offers calm, practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, ADHD, and other life challenges. Nicole aims to make the first step easier and supports clients as they work toward clearer goals and better day-to-day coping.
She adapts sessions to each person's needs and keeps conversations respectful and straightforward. Nicole uses approaches that focus on values, skills, and understanding attachment patterns so people can change what gets in the way of the life they want.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to be collaborative and goal oriented. Nicole has worked across a range of issues including trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting and caregiver stress, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She also helps with career strain, sleeping problems, and intimacy or communication difficulties.
Her background includes supporting people through major life transitions and loss. Her clinical approach draws on several evidence-informed methods like acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavioral tools, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. The focus is on practical steps, skills practice, and building clearer patterns in relationships.
Nicole asks new clients to complete an additional informed consent form before the first session. Based in Florida, she offers later evening appointments during the week and some weekend times. Sessions are designed to fit into busy schedules and to help people make steady progress toward their goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Nicole uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values, even when feelings are difficult. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and situations where motivation and direction feel unclear.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. CBT is often used for mood, sleep, and anxiety concerns because it includes clear strategies and homework to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Nicole will talk through goals, preferences, and day-to-day routines to pick methods that fit each person. She frames therapy as a collaboration where you try strategies and adjust what isn’t working.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let you use visual cues and full conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
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