Nicole Henning, LPC

Nicole Henning is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania with ten years of clinical experience. She uses straightforward strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Nicole focuses on practical thinking skills and building everyday self-care habits.

She often draws on cognitive behavioral approaches to spot unhelpful thinking and replace it with more balanced choices. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with clear steps clients can try between meetings. Nicole also brings client-centered work into sessions so people feel heard as they set their goals.

Her background includes work in correctional settings and with people who have struggled with substance use. That experience shaped her interest in trauma, grief, and complex life changes. She also has experience with relationship issues and family systems ideas when those come up in individual work.

Nicole follows additional approaches such as dialectical behavior methods, emotionally-focused ideas, and attachment-based perspectives to address emotion regulation and connection issues. She stays curious about neuroscience and regularly reads and studies new findings about the brain and behavior. Her aim is practical change rather than abstract theory.

In sessions she emphasizes small, doable steps: clarify a goal, test a new way of thinking, and practice a coping skill. Nicole explains concepts in plain language and helps people fit changes into busy lives. She supports people working on career stress, self-esteem, anger, and other daily struggles.

How Nicole’s approaches translate to online therapy

Nicole commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-based ideas in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and practicing alternative thinking and behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. Attachment-based approaches look at how early relational patterns affect current connections and help people build healthier ways of relating.

She also brings client-centered principles into remote sessions by listening closely and adapting work to each person’s goals. Finding the right approach is part of the process; she will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their needs, preferences, and pace rather than insisting on a single path.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls suit longer sessions and interactive skill practice, phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or hands-free conversation helps, live chat can be used for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders or short updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other commitments while keeping the focus on clear steps and practical tools.