About Nicole

Nicole Thomte is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Minnesota with 13 years of clinical experience. She uses inclusive, sex-positive language and affirms diverse sexual and gender identities, pronouns she/her or they/them. Nicole focuses on practical support and real-life changes rather than labels, helping clients find the approaches that work for them.

Nicole's style is warm and nonjudgmental. She leans toward an exploratory, client-centered stance and invites humor alongside serious work.

Background and approach

Sessions often involve looking for patterns, trying small experiments, and setting straightforward goals together. Her background includes years of community and agency work that centered people facing high barriers to care. Early roles included group facilitation with survivors of gender-based violence and supporting people with multiple health and social challenges.

Those experiences shaped a practice grounded in advocacy and cultural awareness. Nicole offers affirmative support for people from LGBTQIA+ communities and those involved in kink, polyamory, consensual non-monogamy, or alternative sexuality cultures. She also addresses concerns such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and work-related stress.

In sessions she may draw on client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral techniques, solution-focused planning, motivational interviewing, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. The goal is simple: help people manage symptoms, clarify values, and make changes that fit their life and identity. Nicole welcomes clear, direct conversation about goals and prefers collaborative planning.

Her approach aims to respect each person's experience while offering practical tools for moving forward.

Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person in front of the therapist. It helps when people want support in making their own choices and being heard without judgment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication skills when feelings run high.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicole collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, values, and daily life. Together they try tools, track what helps, and adjust the plan when needed rather than sticking to one fixed method.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone needs less bandwidth, live chat works for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep appointments around work, caregiving, or other commitments while using the approaches above in ways that suit each client.

Questions people ask

What concerns does Nicole commonly address?
Nicole works with a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, and career stress. She also offers affirmative support for LGBTQIA+ topics and alternative sexual cultures.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is exploratory and client-centered with a practical focus. She uses humor, collaborative planning, and skills-based work to help people find what fits their life.
What is her professional background?
Nicole has 13 years of experience and has worked in behavioral health agencies and community organizations. She has experience facilitating survivor groups and supporting people with complex health and social needs.
What credentials and location are on record?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, licensed in Minnesota. Her practice is located in Minnesota.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she offer online?
Nicole provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for therapy. These options allow different pacing and check-in styles to fit schedules.
How does cost and billing work?
Session cost varies by location and therapist availability and is handled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Exact pricing is provided during the sign-up process.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. After matching, schedule sessions based on the therapist's listed availability.

What this therapist works with

Most often

Experience
13 years
Licensed
Minnesota
Languages
English

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