About Nicole
Nicole DeLuca is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Nevada with three years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and ADHD. Nicole centers her work on the person's strengths and personal goals.
She aims to make the first steps feel manageable and encouraging. Nicole uses straightforward, collaborative conversations to understand what feels hardest in daily life. She listens for patterns around self-worth, panic, impulsivity, and isolation, then helps people try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Typical sessions include practical problem-solving, skill practice, and space to process painful memories. Her background includes approaches like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, dialectical skills, and EMDR-informed methods. Nicole adapts tools to match what each person needs rather than following one fixed plan.
She helps people break big problems into small, doable steps. Nicole pays attention to how attachment, abandonment fears, and communication issues shape relationships and day-to-day choices. She also supports people dealing with body image, guilt and shame, or questions about purpose.
Veterans and those with mood or panic symptoms may find focused practical strategies here. Sessions can include short coaching-style check-ins or longer therapy conversations, depending on what someone asks for. Nicole aims to make the process feel purposeful and understandable.
She encourages honest questions about goals, timeline, and what change might look like.
How Nicole’s Approaches Work Online
Nicole often uses client-centered work to keep the focus on each person's priorities. This approach means conversations are guided by what matters most to the client and moves at their pace. It helps when someone needs a listening space and clear next steps.She also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety or low mood. CBT offers concrete exercises and gentle experiments to test unhelpful beliefs and build new habits. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotional intensity and impulsivity make daily life harder; these skills teach distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Nicole will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose techniques to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Text options fit short updates, skill practice, and people who prefer writing between live sessions. These choices make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Nevada
- Languages
- English