About Nicholas
Nicholas Pantages uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people navigate hard times. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and he brings seven years of clinical experience to sessions in Missouri. His style is straightforward and team-oriented, with a focus on clear steps and real-life tools.
Nicholas often blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people manage intense emotions and change unhelpful patterns. He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help clients clarify values and make choices that matter.
Background and approach
EMDR is part of his toolkit for people processing traumatic memories. Common issues he addresses include depression, anxiety, stress, grief, mood disorders, and challenges tied to relationships and life transitions. He also works with addiction concerns, caregiving stress, end-of-life and hospice issues, and struggles with self-esteem, anger, or impulsivity.
Nicholas aims to meet each person where they are and focus on achievable steps forward. Sessions tend to focus on skills you can use right away, clearer ways to handle difficult feelings, and setting small goals that build momentum. He emphasizes collaboration - clients and therapist plan the work together.
Nicholas teaches practical coping skills while paying attention to what each person values in life. People who choose him often want a direct, supportive approach that mixes skill-building with reflective work. He encourages patience and steady progress, recognizing that change takes time and practice.
Approaches for online therapy that focus on skills and values
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. It can be useful for coping with anxiety, depression, and big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioral experiments. It often helps with mood problems, worry, and sleeping struggles. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better ways to communicate when relationships feel intense.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicholas will talk with each person about goals, life demands, and preferences, and then suggest approaches that fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you meet face to face when schedules align. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a quick break at work. Live chat and text sessions are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English