About Nicole
Nicole Durant is an Ohio-licensed LPCC with 13 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. She focuses on practical steps to cope with life changes and on calming intense reactions like panic and phobias. Nicole speaks English and frames work in a straightforward, supportive way.
Nicole aims to make sessions feel welcoming and nonjudgmental. She encourages people to name what feels hard and to try small, achievable steps between meetings.
Background and approach
Her style balances listening with concrete tools so clients leave with something they can use right away. She draws from several approaches, including client-centered work that follows each person’s pace, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. Those methods are mixed to match each person’s needs rather than applied the same way to everyone.
Nicole often helps people who struggle with attachment and abandonment worries, family of origin issues, caregiver stress, guilt or shame, and trouble with communication or control. She also addresses obsessive-compulsive patterns, panic attacks, and phobias through skills and gradual exposure ideas. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps toward them.
Nicole supports people who want to build coping skills, improve relationships, and find more meaning in day-to-day life. The work is collaborative and paced to fit what each person is ready to try.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the pace each person prefers; it helps people feel heard and decide what changes matter most. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, panic, and phobic reactions. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving coping when stress or shame feels overwhelming.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to try methods that match their goals and comfort level, adjusting techniques as needed. That means starting with what feels doable and building from there rather than imposing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches above to address anxiety, phobias, relationship concerns, and coping with change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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