About Nichole
Nichole Molnar is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who uses practical therapeutic approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She focuses on building a clear, respectful working relationship and tailoring sessions to each person's needs.
She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness techniques, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding. Sessions include short skill practice, goal-setting, and real-world steps to test what works between meetings.
How Nichole works
Over a decade of clinical experience informs her straightforward style. She draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotions feel overwhelming and on motivational interviewing to increase readiness for change. This gives people multiple ways to break repeating patterns.
Her practice addresses a broad range of concerns such as compassion fatigue, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, grief, and family-related problems. Nichole also helps with specific challenges like attachment wounds, codependency, communication breakdowns, and the aftermath of divorce or separation. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused.
Nichole helps people identify small, doable steps and tracks progress over time. She encourages clients to use mindfulness and behavioral experiments to build confidence and reduce avoidance.
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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
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Nichole often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors in everyday life. CBT helps people shorten the time between noticing a thought and trying a different response, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which teaches acceptance of difficult feelings while clarifying values and taking committed action. ACT can be helpful for people coping with grief, trauma-related avoidance, or ongoing life changes. Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and may combine techniques as needed. Clients and therapist check progress and adjust the plan together. Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video supports face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone works well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can help maintain momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try tools in real time.Start online instead of waiting
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