About Nichole
Nichole Garcia is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) with 13 years in the field. She began her career after graduating from Wayne State University and moved quickly into hands-on work at residential shelters and community settings. Nichole spent early years supporting youth at a residential shelter and completing internships at homeless shelters and psychiatric wards.
Since 2017 she has worked with adults at a community mental health agency in Michigan, gaining experience across a wide range of concerns.
How Nichole works
Her background includes work around mood disorders, trauma and abuse, anxiety, eating challenges, substance use, ADHD, and LGBTQ concerns. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She favors practical strategies rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people manage symptoms and change unhelpful habits.
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas to address values, relationships, and long-standing patterns. Sessions are grounded in honesty and warmth. Nichole describes herself as open and direct and aims to build a genuine working relationship where people feel heard and understood.
She emphasizes transparency about the process and goals so clients know what to expect. People who choose her often want a mix of skill-building and deeper exploration. Nichole offers sensible steps for coping with stress, mood shifts, relationship struggles, and life transitions while helping people connect to what matters most to them.
Nichole lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Nichole works with
The areas below are the ones Nichole selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters to them. It supports handling unwanted feelings while moving toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to anxiety, depression, and unhealthy habits. It often includes practical exercises that people can do between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication when feelings run high.Nichole treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life demands and then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made along the way so therapy remains useful and relevant to real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face from different places, phone calls require less bandwidth and can fit a work break, live chat offers a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people use therapy in ways that suit their schedules and daily routines.
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