About Nicole
Nicole Bebiak is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and parenting concerns. She also supports people facing trauma, grief, coping with life changes, ADHD, and LGBTQ-related issues. Nicole has 24 years of counseling experience and works from a practical, down-to-earth perspective.
She trained in clinical psychology and earned a Master of Science degree from Benedictine University in 1999. Since then she has worked in domestic violence services, crisis lines, community mental health, and a behavioral health hospital.
How Nicole works
Those roles gave her experience with self-harm, suicidal thinking, abuse, and intense life crises. Nicole’s main stance is client-centered care. She aims to meet people where they are and consider the whole person, not only symptoms.
In sessions she listens, offers feedback, and sometimes challenges unhelpful patterns while supporting clients to find their own answers. She draws on a range of practical methods including cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative strategies. She adapts tools to the individual rather than following a single formula, recognizing that different approaches work for different people.
Her style is straightforward and compassionate. Nicole focuses on building coping skills, improving communication, and addressing patterns that keep problems stuck. She helps people make concrete changes and manage day-to-day challenges so they can move forward.
Nicole lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How Nicole’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy is about listening and following the client's lead. The therapist focuses on understanding each person's experience, offering empathy and practical support while helping them find their own solutions. This approach helps with stress, relationship problems, low self-esteem, and life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. It breaks problems into manageable steps and is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills training. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce rumination and increase calm; it can support people dealing with stress, grief, and trauma reminders.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try strategies, and adjust as needed so the work fits the person's needs and pace. Clients and the therapist collaborate to test what helps and change course when something isn't working.
Online sessions offer flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and talk in real time, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setting is easier, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when typing feels better. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between meetings.
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