About Nina
Nina Reed is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and relationship or parenting concerns. Nina aims to create a calm, compassionate space where people can talk through what matters and take practical steps forward.
She draws on client-centered therapy to follow each person's lead and build on their strengths. Nina also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to help manage intense feelings and improve focus. Her way of working is flexible and pragmatic. Sessions often focus on small, achievable goals.
Nina mixes approaches so work is tailored to each person's needs and pace. She emphasizes skills people can use between sessions to reduce stress and improve daily functioning. Nina has spent a decade supporting people with a broad range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, anger, career shifts, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses communication problems, isolation and loneliness, social anxiety, and self-harm risk with thoughtful, steady care. People who choose her describe a therapist who listens closely and helps them practice change. Nina believes growth comes from both insight and action, and she focuses on helping people move from surviving to thriving.
How Nina’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's goals. The therapist reflects what matters most and helps tap into strengths to solve current problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete ways to change patterns that cause distress.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Nina works collaboratively to see which methods fit a person's needs and preferences. She may try a few techniques and adjust them over time so sessions stay practical and relevant to goals.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues for deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send short updates, ask questions between sessions, or choose a format that feels less formal. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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