About Nicole
Nicole Williams is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in Vermont. She brings 20 years of counseling experience and a steady, practical style to sessions. Nicole works to make therapy feel approachable and direct for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, grief, or major life change.
Her background includes independent practice, community mental health, and school counseling. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Individual and Family Studies from the University of Delaware and a Master of Arts in Counseling from Northern Vermont University.
How Nicole works
The master’s program included dual licensure in mental health counseling and school counseling, and she later became licensed in Vermont as an LCMHC. Nicole uses a trauma-informed foundation while blending client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral skills, mindfulness, and solution-focused work. Sessions often focus on clear skills like managing worry, improving sleep, handling anger, or repairing relationships.
She emphasizes short practical steps alongside deeper personal work when needed. Her practice covers many concerns such as anxiety, depression, addiction, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar and mood disorders, grief, intimacy struggles, and issues around identity and LGBT concerns. Nicole also supports people facing caregiver stress, aging and geriatric questions, end-of-life matters, and financial or career transitions.
People who find her approach helpful usually want straightforward guidance plus room to reflect. Nicole aims to build a warm, nonjudgmental relationship and to use each person’s existing strengths as a starting point for change.
Nicole lists 4 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Vermont |
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Online support options
How her approaches work in online therapy
Nicole uses client-centered therapy to build trust and listen closely to each person’s experience. This approach focuses on understanding what matters to the client and helping them find their own solutions, which is useful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to teach practical skills for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, panic, and managing mood or eating concerns because it offers clear steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Nicole will collaborate with each client to pick strategies that fit their goals and daily life. That might mean combining listening-focused sessions with skill practice or short solution-focused check-ins to tackle immediate problems.
Online therapy gives flexibility to fit counseling into busy schedules. Video calls let people use body language and deeper conversation, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework, or times when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to get consistent support without long travel or schedule gaps.
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