Nikki Ciletti, LPC

Nikki Ciletti is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 24 years of clinical experience. She focuses on day-to-day problems like stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Her work often centers on relationships, parenting challenges, and life transitions that feel overwhelming.

She uses clear, practical methods to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. That includes helping clients manage panic or social anxiety, work through grief, and address intimacy and anger issues. Sessions aim to build skills people can use between meetings.

Nikki also helps people facing family system challenges. This includes blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and communication problems that arise during divorce or separation. She pays attention to how family roles and past trauma affect present behavior.

Her approach favors collaboration. Clients describe steps and goals, and she offers tools and gentle feedback to reach them. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, career stress, and the strain of parenting.

Nikki works with those managing ADHD, substance use concerns, and co-occurring emotional issues. She frames change as a process and focuses on steady, realistic progress. The emphasis is on practical strategies that fit each person's life and schedule.

How Nikki's Approaches Work Online

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, panic, depression, and coping with life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy so clients can explore what matters to them and build their own solutions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift interaction patterns in relationships to improve connection and reduce recurring conflict.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then try methods that match those needs. That collaborative process can include mixing approaches as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lives and routines. Video calls let people see facial cues and use screen tools for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support short check-ins, homework, and ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people continue therapy through moves, travel, or busy weeks.