About Nicole
Nicole Lewis is a New York licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience. She works with people facing relationship and family stress, and she helps with intimacy questions, self-esteem, and motivation. Nicole approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Nicole adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s needs. She helps people talk through grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and the strain that comes with caregiving or compassion fatigue.
How Nicole works
She also supports those managing anger, career changes, or major life transitions. Her work covers a wide range of family and relationship concerns. This includes communication breakdowns, commitment worries, jealousy, infidelity, abandonment and attachment issues, and separation or divorce.
Nicole also has experience with domestic violence, immigration-related stress, and cancer or hospice and end-of-life concerns. Sessions can address parenting challenges, codependency, control issues, and forgiveness work. She assists people coping with the emotional fallout of loss, chronic stress, or major medical situations.
Nicole helps clients build practical coping skills and clearer communication habits. Nicole offers a straightforward, person-centered approach. She meets people where they are and tailors next steps together.
Starting therapy can feel hard, and she recognizes that first step takes courage.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Nicole draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful patterns in relationships and practice new ways of communicating to reduce conflict and build trust. Another approach looks at how past attachment and abandonment experiences affect current intimacy and helps people develop healthier connection skills.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicole will explore your concerns, goals, and preferences, and together you will decide which methods to try and how to adjust them over time. The therapist emphasizes working at a comfortable pace and revisiting strategies as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people connect in ways that suit their schedules and needs.
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