About Nicole
Nicole Bakewell is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, addictions, and other life changes. Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental, aimed at helping clients feel heard and make steady progress.
Nicole uses practical methods tailored to each person's needs. She draws on attachment-based work to address relationship patterns and on cognitive behavioral ideas to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Nicole works
She also uses emotion-focused and dialectical approaches when intense feelings or relationship hurts are involved. Nicole has eight years of clinical experience, including work in community mental health and telehealth settings. That background means she has helped people facing grief, parenting stress, caregiver strain, trauma, and a range of co-occurring concerns.
She emphasizes clear, achievable goals rather than vague promises. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented. Nicole listens first, then suggests small steps and tools someone can use between sessions.
She aims to build skills that reduce symptoms like sleep problems, anger, or compulsive behaviors while also addressing deeper patterns such as attachment wounds or codependency. Nicole offers several online formats to fit different needs, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. People can start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works with her availability.
Nicole lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Nicole works with
The areas below are the ones Nicole selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Using attachment, emotion, and skills work online
Nicole often uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand how early patterns affect current relationships. That work looks at how connection and trust get formed and how to repair repeating hurts over time. It can help with intimacy issues, codependency, abandonment concerns, and relationship repair.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT involves breaking problems into manageable parts, trying small behavioral experiments, and practicing new thinking patterns to reduce anxiety, depression, or compulsive behaviors. Emotion-focused methods are added when feelings are intense; those approaches help name and process strong emotions and improve emotional communication in relationships.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust as progress is made. Clients are invited to give feedback so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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