- Mindfulness based CBT
- Practical coping skills
- Support for parents
About Nicole
Nicole Wheeler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with six years of counseling experience and a long history in mental health. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, parenting and family concerns, mood difficulties, ADHD, grief, and codependency. Nicole writes plainly and aims to make therapy usable for daily life.
She uses mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. That approach includes practical tools for noticing patterns, building new habits, and changing unhelpful thinking. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and habit-reversal strategies when they fit a person’s goals.
Nicole has worked across settings with people facing chronic illness, OCD-related behaviors like skin picking and hair pulling, adoption and foster care issues, and autism-related concerns. She pays attention to family dynamics and caregiver stress while helping people build coping skills and clearer communication.
In sessions she emphasizes small, concrete steps - learning triggers, adjusting routines, and practicing skills between meetings. She describes a personal SELF model that encourages self-searching, changing environment, learning self-acceptance, and practicing forgiveness.
Nicole offers telehealth as a way to begin treatment and to fit therapy into busy lives. She notes that telehealth is suited to mild to moderate concerns and asks people with moderate to severe trauma to include symptom details during intake so she can determine the best match for online work.
How her approaches translate to online work
Nicole combines mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral techniques with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in ways that work well online. Mindfulness-based CBT focuses on noticing thoughts and practicing small behavioral changes to reduce distress and improve daily routines. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take committed steps toward them while learning to accept difficult feelings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer interpersonal communication.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and together decide which combination of approaches fits best. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting methods as work progresses.
Telehealth can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and try skills in real life between sessions. Because the specific session formats are not listed here, confirm current online session options before booking. Online work can support learning coping skills, habit reversal exercises, exposure practice at a manageable pace, and short check-ins that help maintain progress without requiring travel.
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Experience
6+ years
Credentials
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Nicole address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, sleep problems, anger, career strain, and codependency among other issues listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral approach with practical exercises, plus ACT and DBT tools when helpful to teach coping skills and change habits.
What is her clinical background and experience?
Nicole has six years of counseling experience and a total of 27 years in the mental health field across several settings.
What credential does she hold and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, licensed in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does pricing and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.