About Nicole
Nicole Lewandowski is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She speaks directly and respectfully, offering a calm, interactive approach that aims to reduce shame and blame. Nicole uses clear language and practical strategies so parents and busy adults can understand next steps.
She draws on client-centered work to focus conversations on each person's goals.
How Nicole works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try small shifts that change mood and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills help with strong emotions and impulsive reactions, and EMDR is used when trauma memories get in the way of daily life. Nicole adapts the pace and tools to fit individual needs.
Sessions often include skill practice, problem-solving, and short-term behavioral experiments. She avoids labeling and centers respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every session. Her background includes long-term work with people affected by trauma, abuse, addiction, and neurodiversity such as Autism and ADHD.
She also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, body image struggles, and occupational burnout like first responder issues. Therapy sessions are offered in English and take place online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Getting started involves completing a brief questionnaire and scheduling a session based on availability.
Nicole aims to make therapy understandable and workable for everyday life.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
How Nicole’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on what matters most to the person. The therapist listens closely, reflects concerns back, and helps set goals based on the client's values and priorities. This approach helps people who want a collaborative, paced conversation about change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online sessions often include tracking patterns, practicing new behaviors between meetings, and using simple experiments to test different thinking styles. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday stressors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy brings practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. In online work this can mean practicing grounding, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation skills during or between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, pace, and preferences. That process can change over time as needs shift.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be less bandwidth intensive, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving schedules.
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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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