About Nicole
Nicole Flores is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 20 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and changes in mood. She offers a calm, accepting presence and focuses on building trust so difficult feelings can be talked about openly. Parents reading on a phone will find straightforward language and short, practical steps for moving forward.
Nicole centers sessions on the person's immediate concerns. She uses time-tested techniques to help people manage panic, insomnia, obsessive thoughts, and low self-worth.
How Nicole works
Sessions tend to be collaborative - the person and Nicole set small goals and track progress session to session. Her methods include client-centered work that emphasizes being heard, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thought patterns, and trauma-focused strategies to address past hurts. Mindfulness tools and solution-focused ideas are also used to build coping skills and create manageable plans.
Nicole has substantial experience supporting people facing adoption and foster care issues, postpartum depression, dissociation, mood disorders, and self-harm concerns. She also helps with body image, eating concerns, and the particular stressors that come with obsessive-compulsive symptoms and panic attacks. In sessions she aims for clear, practical steps rather than complex jargon.
People leave with tools they can try between meetings and a plan for the next step. Nicole describes therapy as a team effort where small changes add up over time.
Nicole lists 5 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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a nonjudgmental space where people can describe what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance, clearer self-understanding, and time to sort through feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, mood concerns, obsessive thoughts, and for building routines around sleep and daily tasks.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicole will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. She adjusts strategies as progress is made so the plan stays relevant and usable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make scheduling easier and let people fit therapy into busy lives.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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