About Nicole
Nicole Jacobson is an AASW-accredited social worker with 20 years of practice in Australia. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, grief, parenting strains and depression, and offers understanding around compassion fatigue. Nicole writes in plain language and aims to make next steps clear and achievable for worried parents.
Nicole adapts conversations to each person's situation. She draws on experience caring for children with disability and familiarity with Circle of Security attachment parenting to inform her approach to caregiving and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
She has also spent time living in remote Aboriginal communities and brings that lived context to her work. Her background includes postgraduate certificates in Play Therapy and in assessment and diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Those studies shape how she listens and how she frames practical strategies for families and carers.
She emphasises respect, sensitivity and compassion in every conversation. Nicole helps people break down problems into small, manageable steps. Sessions often focus on coping skills, improving communication, and building routines that ease day-to-day pressure.
Where relevant, she supports people facing adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, dementia or ageing questions, body image, substance misuse, isolation and life purpose struggles. She encourages clients to set realistic goals and to try small changes between sessions. Nicole aims to empower people to find steadier emotional ground and clearer choices.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she offers steady support through that process.
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Nicole uses practical, evidence-based techniques that aim to reduce symptoms and improve everyday functioning. Cognitive-based techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. These approaches teach skills you can use between sessions to manage worry and boost mood.Play-informed strategies are used when appropriate to support parents and carers. These approaches use age-appropriate activities and guided interaction to strengthen attachment and help children express feelings. They are helpful for parenting challenges, attachment concerns and family communication problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. The therapist will discuss options with each person and select methods that match goals, preferences and life demands. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, reflective exchanges or shorter therapeutic tasks between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Phobias
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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