About Nicole
Nicole Wheeler, LPC, aims to help people who feel stuck by offering steady, practical support. She focuses on everyday problems like anxiety, stress, sleep trouble, low self-esteem, parenting strains, and life transitions. She also works with concerns related to trauma, grief, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and identity issues such as LGBT matters.
Nicole brings six years of counseling experience and many additional years in mental health work. She favors methods that teach concrete skills - how to notice thoughts, change unhelpful patterns, and build better coping habits.
Background and approach
Clients can expect clear explanations and step-by-step practice rather than long theory talks. Her background includes work with family dynamics, adoption and foster care topics, blended family issues, autism, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and codependency. She has helped people facing OCD-related behaviors such as skin picking and hair pulling, and supports those managing chronic pain, fertility struggles, and career or communication problems.
In sessions she draws on mindfulness, cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance-focused work, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. These methods are used to identify triggers, alter routines that keep problems going, and build new responses that reduce distress over time. Nicole values collaboration and a practical approach.
She invites people to share their story, try tools in real life, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Her style is straightforward, compassionate, and focused on small, achievable steps.
Approaches and online care that teach practical skills
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting locked into them, then pick actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions when someone wants a values-based plan. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that maintain problems; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and OCD-related habits. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to the present moment and can reduce reactivity, improve sleep, and support emotion regulation.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Nicole works collaboratively to match methods to each person's goals, needs, and preferences. She will try techniques, check what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is seen.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video calls are a close substitute for in-person work, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit skill practice into daily life and keep continuity when routines change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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