About Nicole
Nicole Schellinger is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience. She brings a calm, approachable manner to each session and focuses on what the client needs in the moment. Nicole uses straightforward, practical methods to help people cope with day-to-day challenges and longer-term concerns.
Nicole aims to make sessions feel warm and inviting while staying focused on each person’s goals. She pays attention to individual strengths and values and works alongside clients to set clear, manageable steps.
Background and approach
The emphasis is on small changes that add up over time. Her background includes an undergraduate degree in addictions studies from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Education in Mental Health Counseling from Lindsey Wilson College.
Nicole spent many years in community behavioral health before moving into online practice, so she is used to working with a wide range of problems and life situations. Nicole draws on several practical therapy methods, including cognitive behavioral ideas, solution-focused tools, motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Sessions often include goal-setting, skill practice, and strategies for managing stress and mood.
She helps people talk through relationship strain, grief, addiction-related concerns, ADHD-related struggles, sleep and eating problems, and work or career stress. People who prefer clear, active collaboration tend to do well with her style. She partners with clients to find useful approaches and adapts them to real life.
Nicole aims to help people build routines, improve communication, and regain a sense of control.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take actions that matter to them, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress that interferes with daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it can help with panic, depression, sleep problems, and many mood concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and helps people find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicole will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the client’s needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people juggling busy lives. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person sessions, phone visits work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, family, or school and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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