About Nina
Nina Powell uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person’s needs at the center of each session. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of experience. Nina focuses on grief, life changes, stress, anxiety, and relationship and family concerns.
Her work often addresses caregiver strain, end-of-life matters, and the emotional impact of serious illness. She combines practical tools with time to talk and reflect. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thinking and try different responses.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused and Narrative approaches are used when exploring attachment, loss, and personal stories that shape how someone copes. Much of Nina’s practice has involved adults affected by cancer and chronic illness. She has provided counseling for patients and caregivers, including support with body image, loss of control, and compassion fatigue.
She also offers intensive bereavement counseling after sudden or traumatic losses. Over three decades she has worked with people facing trauma, abuse, chronic pain, and major life transitions. Sessions aim to reduce distress and increase practical coping skills.
Nina also addresses career concerns, self-esteem, anger, and issues related to identity and LGBT experiences. Her Florida practice draws on experience helping people connect with resources and plan for difficult decisions. Sessions are offered in English and are available via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
To begin, a simple matching questionnaire helps connect a person to the right therapist and schedule.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist reflects feelings and priorities so people feel heard and can make choices about next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers specific exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nina will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences. That might mean starting with a conversation-focused, client-centered approach and adding CBT tools or Emotionally-Focused techniques when helpful. The plan can shift as needs change.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging is useful for ongoing support and brief reflections. These options offer flexibility for people juggling caregiving, medical appointments, work, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Maine
- Languages
- English