Cory Nicolas
Calm, practical help for family relationships
- Credentials
- LCPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Hawaii, Nevada
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cory
Cory Nicolas is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on family and parenting issues alongside stress, anxiety, relationships, and trauma. She speaks plainly and works to help parents and partners untangle patterns that cause tension at home. Cory aims to make conversations straightforward so families can take practical next steps.
Her style is warm and direct, with a focus on understanding how past events affect current behavior.
Background and approach
Sessions often look at relationship patterns, communication habits, and responses to stress. Cory uses trauma-informed methods to help people process difficult experiences and reduce intense reactions. With 13 years of experience, Cory blends techniques that target the body’s responses and thought patterns.
That can include approaches that help locate physical responses to trauma and methods that reshape unhelpful thinking. She also supports people facing caregiver stress, codependency, commitment doubts, and family-of-origin problems. She works with issues such as panic attacks, phobias, guilt and shame, infidelity, and post-traumatic stress.
Cory also addresses first responder stress and challenges that arise in non-monogamous or polyamorous relationships. Therapy focuses on small, usable changes clients can try between sessions. Cory holds the Nevada LCPC license NV LCPC CP5291-R and the Hawaii LMHC license HI LMHC MHC-348.
She practices from Hawaii and offers sessions in English. To begin, clients follow the site's matching and scheduling steps to connect and plan sessions.
Evidence-based approaches and online care for families
Many of Cory's methods focus on how the body and mind store stress and trauma. Brainspotting is one approach she uses to help people find and process strong physical responses linked to painful memories. It can be helpful for trauma, panic, and intense emotional reactions. Cognitive approaches look at thoughts and beliefs that keep people stuck. These techniques help identify unhelpful thinking and practice new, more balanced responses. They are useful for anxiety, panic, and relationship patterns. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cory works with each person to see what feels most useful and adjusts methods over time. Together they set goals and try techniques that match the person’s needs, preferences, and home life. Online sessions make it easier for busy families to get care. Cory offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, so parents can choose what fits their schedule. That flexibility helps people keep therapy steady while managing family responsibilities and daily stress.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Nevada
- Languages
- English
Next step
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