About Nicole
Nicole Reineri is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who blends practical tools with a person-centered stance. She writes and talks plainly with clients to help them face anxiety, stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, addiction, grief, and phobias. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel more steady day to day.
Nicole trained in psychology and earned a master’s degree in professional counseling from Lindenwood University. Before counseling, she worked in vocational rehabilitation, pain management, addiction services, and applied behavior analysis.
Background and approach
That varied background shaped how she helps people solve real problems and manage life’s ups and downs. In training placements she led groups for at-risk youth and provided crisis support for students. She has four years of clinical experience and has also taught introductory psychology at the college level.
Her practice combines hands-on skills with an emphasis on understanding each person’s story. Her style mixes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, emotionally-focused ideas, and client-centered listening. Sessions focus on sorting thoughts, naming feelings, and finding practical next steps.
Nicole aims to help people notice patterns and try different ways of coping when old habits stop working. People who connect with her usually want clear, compassionate guidance and tools they can use between sessions. She encourages small, achievable changes and collaborates on goals that feel meaningful.
Nicole’s work centers on helping people regain a sense of calm and purpose.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values instead of getting stuck trying to control every feeling. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve mood. It often helps with anxiety, phobias, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotional responses and improving how people connect and communicate in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. This is a collaborative decision and can change as needs evolve during therapy.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make appointments easier to fit into busy lives. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a break at work, and messaging suits short check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options give flexibility in how and when people engage with therapy while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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