About Nina
Nina Reed helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting strain, and low self-esteem. She supports those dealing with depression, grief, anger, relationship and intimacy concerns, and career or life changes. Nina is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience in Illinois and she uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions.
Nina keeps sessions focused on what matters to each person. She listens first and then offers tools that fit the situation.
How Nina works
Conversations are collaborative and aimed at building on individual strengths. She mixes approaches to match goals rather than using a single method for everyone. Her work includes short-term strategies for coping and longer conversations about patterns that keep people stuck.
She uses mindfulness to help calm the body and CBT techniques to tackle unhelpful thinking. Narrative tools are used to reframe problems and motivate change. Nina often guides people through parenting stress, ADHD challenges, and the strain of caregiving or work-related burnout.
She also supports people handling commitment issues, social anxiety, isolation, and somatic concerns. Practical steps and small experiments are common in sessions. Therapy with Nina is aimed at clearer communication, better boundaries, and more manageable emotions.
Sessions include coaching-style problem solving when that fits the client. Her goal is to help people not just get by but move toward goals that matter to them.
Nina lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Nina works with
The areas below are the ones Nina 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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How Nina Uses Talk, Thought Work, and Mindfulness Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person needs. It centers the client's goals and strengths and helps people feel heard while exploring change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses clear steps to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors; it is helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness, which often helps with anxiety and emotional overwhelm.Nina treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they decide whether to use mindfulness skills, CBT tools, narrative exercises, or a mix of methods that feels most useful for the situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session or visual interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflection, or when a shorter, more frequent touchpoint suits the client. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to practice skills between sessions.
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