About Nicole
Nicole Spahl is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona with 27 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by guiding them toward clearer thinking and steadier emotions. Nicole aims to build a practical, down-to-earth relationship that makes talking about hard things easier.
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, mood disorders, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Nicole also supports people facing relationship tension, feelings of isolation, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Her practice includes attention to issues like postpartum depression, panic attacks, and compassion fatigue. Her style is warm and oriented around the individual.
Nicole centers sessions on the person in front of her, listening first and then offering tools that fit daily life. She blends attachment ideas with cognitive and emotion-focused methods so the work can change how someone thinks, feels, and connects with others. Sessions often focus on practical skills such as managing panic, improving communication, and coping with mood swings.
Nicole uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when those approaches match a person's goals. She also draws on attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas to address relational patterns and healing from past wounds. Nicole aims to make therapy straightforward and useful.
She helps people set small, achievable goals and practices skills between sessions. Many clients come for relief from immediate distress and leave with clearer ways to move forward.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Nicole often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and build practical coping skills for issues like anxiety, panic, and mood swings. CBT breaks problems into small parts and focuses on clear strategies to feel better day to day.She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. That work helps clients understand why they react the way they do in close relationships and practice different ways of connecting. Emotionally-focused elements help when the goal is to shift how someone experiences and expresses strong feelings in relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicole collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and life situation. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan so sessions stay useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and skill work, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging lets people process thoughts between appointments. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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