About Nicole
Nicole Forester supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, addictions, depression, and struggles with identity and relationships. She welcomes honest conversation and listens without judgment to help people find their own voice. Nicole has 16 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Colorado and California.
LPC and LPCC are the credentials she uses in practice. Nicole keeps sessions direct and straightforward. She encourages people to say what they really mean and to notice what matters most to them.
How Nicole works
Her approach blends acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive tools, emotion-focused work, and a client-centered stance to match the needs in the room. Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient addiction services, crisis teams, neuropsychiatric settings, hospice work with young people, and independent practice. That variety informs how she understands complex problems like dissociation, codependency, and caregiver stress.
Nicole draws on both short-term strategies and deeper, meaning-focused conversations depending on what a person needs. Sessions tend to focus on real-life changes - sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, career crossroads, or coping after loss or disaster. She also addresses identity-related concerns such as gender dysphoria and LGBT issues, plus intimacy and family-of-origin patterns.
Nicole invites prospective clients to ask questions and to treat the first meetings as a chance to check fit. She works in English and practices in Colorado, bringing a calm, practical stance and 16 years of clinical experience to each session.
Nicole lists 12 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
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How Nicole’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Nicole uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing on what matters rather than on trying to control every thought.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to build practical skills for mood, sleep, and behavior changes. CBT offers clear exercises and homework that fit well into remote sessions and daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicole will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then suggest which methods to try. Plans can be adjusted over time based on how things are going.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and body language cues, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are handy for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue care through life changes.
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