About Nicole
Nicole Phelan is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in central Maine. She brings nine years of experience helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and changes in their lives. Nicole keeps a straightforward and caring style in sessions.
Nicole offers practical help for parents, people managing mood concerns like bipolar disorder, and those coping with trauma or abuse. She also supports people facing relationship strain, eating-related struggles, ADHD, and self-esteem issues.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to attachment, adoption and foster care concerns, and blended family challenges. Her approach is interactive and direct while remaining respectful and compassionate. Nicole often uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify values and build useful daily habits.
She also draws on attachment-focused ideas and Jungian perspectives when they fit the persons needs. Nicole values activities in nature as part of healing. She encourages getting outside when it helps with mood, grounding, and perspective.
Practical, simple tasks between sessions are commonly part of her plans so progress doesn't depend only on session time. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Nicole works with people who want clear feedback, steady support, and help making real changes in day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and build small, steady actions toward those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to meaningful behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often suits anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and connection, helping people understand patterns from early bonds and how those patterns show up now. Therapists will work together with each person to identify which approach or mix of approaches fits best. That decision is collaborative - based on goals, needs, and what feels useful in early sessions. Nicole tailors methods so people get clear tools and steady support rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into real life. Video calls let people see facial cues and work in real time. Phone sessions can require less bandwidth and be a simpler check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter exchanges and quick processing between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules, locations, and comfort with technology.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English