About Nicole
Dr. Nicole Donato brings a client-centered approach to online therapy. She emphasizes genuine listening and empathy.
Nicole uses practical tools to help people cope with stress, anxiety, addictions, and related concerns such as sleep problems, grief, and body image issues. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with eleven years of clinical experience in New Jersey. Nicole studied extensively in psychology and went on to work in a variety of settings.
Background and approach
Her background includes inpatient psychiatric care, outpatient therapy, and social work for a foster family agency. She also teaches at the college level and enjoys helping students make meaningful connections in their learning. In sessions she blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques.
That means she focuses on understanding a person’s experience while helping them spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also uses elements of motivational interviewing to support change and draws on psychodynamic ideas when it helps explore life patterns. People who contact her can expect straightforward conversations and collaborative planning.
Nicole aims to make the therapy process clear and practical. She helps people set achievable goals and tracks progress together over time. She offers sessions through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows the therapist’s availability.
How her counseling approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a strong therapeutic relationship. The therapist aims to be genuine and empathetic, helping people feel heard while they set goals and decide what changes to try. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify triggering events and the self-talk that follows. It then guides practical experiments to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease anxiety, improve sleep, and reduce mood symptoms.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, history, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize client-centered support, CBT techniques, motivational interviewing, or a mix of approaches that fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or helpful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let someone send updates or get brief support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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