About Nicole
Nicole Spahl is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona with 27 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Nicole takes a practical, straightforward approach and centers conversations on what matters most to each person.
Her work includes support for trauma and abuse, parenting strains, relationship and family concerns, and mood disorders such as bipolar disorder. She also addresses challenges like ADHD, compassion fatigue, panic attacks, postpartum depression, and feelings of isolation or low self-worth.
How Nicole works
Nicole draws on a range of approaches to meet different needs in therapy. Nicole emphasizes a relationship-based style. Sessions are collaborative and aim to build stronger emotional awareness and healthier patterns with others and with oneself.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral methods and emotionally-focused work to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change interaction patterns. Therapy with her often includes learning concrete skills for emotion regulation, communication, and coping with stress. She supports parents navigating adoption, attachment questions, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and family of origin issues.
Nicole pays attention to how past losses or abandonment shape current responses. People who connect with her typically want clear steps and respectful support while they make changes. She invites a calm, steady process rather than quick fixes.
Nicole aims to help people reclaim a sense of balance, self-love, and direction in everyday life.
Nicole lists 9 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and healing
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of connecting to reduce conflict and loneliness.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person and their goals, offering empathic listening and support. It helps people feel heard and respected while they sort out choices and rebuild self-confidence.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and manage symptoms like anxiety, panic attacks, and low mood.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaborative planning can evolve as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins and ongoing support between appointments. These options make it possible to keep therapy consistent around school, work, or caregiving obligations.
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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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