Nicole Wheeler, LPC

Nicole Wheeler is a licensed professional counselor with six years of clinical counseling experience and a long history in the mental health field. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, coping with life changes, or managing mood and attention challenges. She also supports clients facing parenting and family concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and struggles related to trauma or abuse.

Nicole uses straightforward, skills-based work in sessions. She teaches practical ways to notice thoughts, test them, and build habits that reduce distress. Her practice draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness techniques to help clients change unhelpful patterns and learn coping strategies.

Her background includes work with autistic clients, at-risk youth, and people living with chronic illness and OCD behaviors such as skin picking and hair pulling. Nicole combines habit change strategies and exposure-based techniques when appropriate to target repetitive behaviors and avoidance. She also brings tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to improve emotional regulation and values-driven action.

Nicole values collaboration and a clear plan. She asks people to describe symptoms and history so she can recommend the best way forward. Many clients use online formats for sessions, and she frames remote work as a practical way to start making steady progress.

Nicole aims to help each person become more able to manage feelings, change old habits, and build a life that matches their priorities.

How her approaches fit into online therapy

Nicole commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with manageable experiments. CBT focuses on clear steps you can practice between sessions to reduce anxiety, depression, and repetitive behaviors.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which teaches noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps that match personal values. ACT can help with stress, grief, and life transitions by shifting what you focus on and what actions matter most.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to choose which methods match their goals, symptoms, and daily life. That collaborative process may blend CBT, ACT, mindfulness, and habit-focused strategies until a usable plan emerges.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work face to face when schedules allow. Phone sessions use less data and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when you prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to maintain regular sessions and practice skills where life happens.