About Nicole
Nicole Henning is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania. She has about ten years of clinical experience and a Master of Education in Counseling. Nicole focuses on practical skills people can use right away to manage stress and anxiety.
She draws on cognitive approaches to help people challenge unhelpful thinking and build healthier habits. Nicole blends several evidence-informed approaches in sessions. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thinking patterns and try new responses.
Background and approach
She also works from an attachment-based perspective to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Client-centered methods guide the pace of work so each person sets the goals. Her background includes work in correctional settings and with people who have histories of substance use.
She has also taught psychology and enjoys sharing what she learns about the brain. That interest in neuroscience informs how she explains symptoms and coping strategies. In practical terms Nicole helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, trauma, and issues such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, and addiction.
She aims to build coping skills, self-care routines, and clear goals that fit a person's life. Sessions mix talking, skill practice, and problem-solving. People who prefer direct, skills-based work with an emphasis on relationships often find her approach helpful.
She invites clients to collaborate on a plan and to practice tools between sessions. Therapy is presented as a step-by-step process rather than a one-time fix.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how patterns from past relationships influence current feelings and reactions. Online sessions can be used to notice those patterns, name the interaction habits, and practice new ways of relating in everyday life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In remote sessions, CBT tools like thought records and behavioral experiments are taught and reviewed together so clients can try them between meetings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand and reorganize emotional responses in close relationships by naming emotions and creating new interaction cycles.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Nicole will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences, and then collaborate on which methods to use. That plan can change over time as needs shift and skills develop.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues and real-time feedback matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for brief coaching, tracking progress, or when someone wants written notes to review later. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep work moving between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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