About Nina
Nina Escobar-Petersen offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life change. She uses a calm, practical style to help clients name their concerns and make small, useful changes. Nina is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in Missouri with 15 years of experience.
Her sessions focus on clear goals and steady progress. She listens closely and helps people build coping skills that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Conversation is direct and compassionate, with tools chosen to address whatever is most pressing in the room. Nina draws on methods such as attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and client-centered listening. She uses these approaches to address trauma, relationship struggles, identity questions, and workplace stress.
Techniques may include skill-building, examining patterns, and processing difficult memories. People can expect a collaborative process where goals are revisited and adjusted. Nina pays attention to how relationships and past experiences shape current feelings and behaviors.
She also offers support for concerns like ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are available through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Costs vary with location and a subscription model is used, which can be canceled at any time.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability. Nina aims to make therapy practical and usable. The focus is on small steps that lead to clearer thinking, steadier mood, and better day-to-day functioning.
How attachment work and CBT translate to online therapy
Online sessions can include attachment-based approaches and cognitive behavioral techniques in ways that feel practical and direct. Attachment-based work focuses on how past relationships shape current reactions, helping people notice patterns and build new ways of relating. This approach is useful for addressing attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and relationship distress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. It often involves short skill-building exercises, thought records, and homework tasks that fit into daily routines. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will choose methods that match the problem and the person’s pace. Adjustments are made over time as needs shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let the therapist and client read facial cues and hold longer conversations. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when hands-free conversation is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options offer flexibility to fit sessions into work breaks, travel, or a busy home life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English