About Nicole
Nicole Saunders is a licensed mental health counselor with 21 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship or family tensions. Nicole uses a compassionate, respectful approach and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
She meets clients where they are and adapts the conversation to each person. Sessions are aimed at clear goals like better sleep, improving communication, managing anger, or coping with grief and life change.
How Nicole works
Nicole also helps with issues such as ADHD, bipolar concerns, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related worries. Her work draws on approaches that promote values-based action and stronger relationships. She blends techniques that focus on thoughts and behaviors with attention to attachment patterns and emotional regulation.
This mix helps people build skills and notice what matters most to them. Nicole is licensed in Florida as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC. She asks clients to complete an additional informed consent form before the first session.
She offers later evening weekday hours and some weekend times to fit hectic schedules. Sessions can be arranged to target specific needs like parenting strain, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care concerns, chronic illness coping, or recovery from domestic violence and trauma. The aim is steady, practical progress through short-term strategies and ongoing support.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take actions that matter despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and transitions where motivation or direction feels unclear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and changing related behaviors. It is practical for sleep problems, anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day struggles.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist and the client discuss goals, preferences, and how each method feels in practice. Nicole will help determine whether ACT, CBT, attachment-focused work, or a blend fits best and then adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and emotional work. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, written reflection, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, caregiving, or other responsibilities and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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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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