About Nicole
Nicole Lewandowski, LCSW, focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or trauma. She keeps conversations direct and compassionate so clients can talk about what matters most. Her style is warm and interactive, aimed at practical steps rather than labels.
With two decades of experience as a social worker and therapist, she has supported people dealing with depression, relationship challenges, parenting struggles, OCD, ADHD, and autism spectrum concerns.
Background and approach
She has also worked with many who have experienced physical trauma or emotional abuse. Nicole practices in Wisconsin and offers sessions in English. Her sessions begin by listening closely to a person's story and goals.
From there she shapes a plan that fits each person's needs, mixing evidence-based techniques with client-centered dialogue. She believes therapy should respect each person's background and strengths. Nicole uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior tools, narrative work, EMDR, and mindfulness in flexible ways.
That means sessions can include practical skills, guided reflection, and trauma-focused methods when appropriate. The focus is on building coping skills and clearer daily routines. Nicole describes therapy as a collaborative process.
She supports clients through small, steady changes and helps them discover what works in everyday life. If someone is ready to try new ways of coping, she offers structured guidance and ongoing encouragement.
How Nicole's Approaches Work Online
Nicole often blends cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and day-to-day stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which many people find useful for managing anger, worry, or sleep problems.She may also use elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are important goals. DBT offers concrete skills for handling intense emotions and improving relationships without blaming anyone. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together - she collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and life demands.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when visual cues and deeper conversation matter. Phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or texts are useful for shorter check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers written communication. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, school, caregiving, or daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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