About Nicolette
Nicolette Ulstrom is a licensed marriage and family therapist who centers care on each person’s strengths. She focuses on helping people find more joy and a clearer sense of self through steady, practical steps. Nicolette draws on eight years of clinical experience to guide clients through stress, anxiety, substance use concerns, and issues with self-esteem and women's health.
She works from a side-by-side stance, offering encouragement while people name the parts of life they want to change.
How Nicolette works
Sessions emphasize learning personal stories and noticing how past experiences shaped current habits. That makes it easier to try new ways of living and relating. Nicolette has background in family residential treatment where healing happened through increased self-awareness and personal growth.
She uses that experience to help people untangle patterns linked to attachment, codependency, and family of origin problems. This can be useful for those navigating adoption and foster care, parenting stress, or communication difficulties. Her approach blends client-centered work with methods that build emotional skills, motivation, and narrative change.
Clients can expect a practical focus on coping strategies for anger, grief, bipolar and depression symptoms, and relationship concerns. Nicolette aims to help people reconnect with values, strengthen relationships, and find a clearer life purpose. She practices in Minnesota and conducts sessions in English.
The overall goal is straightforward: support, steady progress, and practical tools that help people move toward the life they want.
Nicolette lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Nicolette works with
The areas below are the ones Nicolette selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what they say, and helps them find their own solutions. This approach is helpful for building self-esteem and clarifying personal values.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It offers tools for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and better communication, which can help with anger, anxiety, and substance use concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the early work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress happens.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full session feel, phone calls can fit into tight schedules or low bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging supports shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or travel.
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