About Nicole
Nicole Garza meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps they can take right away. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 13 years of experience. Nicole listens closely, helps people name what feels hard, and works with them to set manageable goals.
Nicole draws on straightforward strategies to address anxiety, depression, and trauma. She also helps people coping with addiction, grief, compassion fatigue, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Conversations cover relationships, intimacy concerns, self‑esteem, sleep struggles, and career stress in plain language and without judgement. Her background includes work with military populations and a range of community settings across several states. That experience shaped a flexible approach that adapts to different life rhythms and stressors.
Nicole combines problem-solving tools with attention to how early relationships influence current patterns. In sessions she blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and commitment ideas and attachment-focused work. That mix supports concrete skill building alongside deeper understanding of emotional patterns.
She also uses elements from dialectical behavior therapy when people need skills for managing strong emotions. Nicole prioritizes a steady, honest working relationship. Together clients set clear, achievable goals and track progress over time.
She aims to make therapy feel useful and relevant to each person’s daily life.
How Nicole’s approaches translate to online care
Nicole uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts and still move toward what matters. ACT is practical for grief, life changes, and ongoing anxiety because it focuses on values and committed action.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That work helps people understand trust, closeness, and recurring relationship problems in everyday life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Nicole will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress or challenges arise.
Online formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy days. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer more frequent touch points for brief updates, skill coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking.
These options aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible while still using the same therapeutic skills and techniques Nicole applies in traditional sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English