Nichole Garcia
Down-to-earth support for parenting and life stressors
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Nichole
Nichole Garcia is a licensed masters social worker (LMSW) with 13 years in mental health care. She began her career supporting children and teens at a residential shelter and later expanded to adult community mental health work. Nichole’s background includes hands-on work in shelters, residential settings, and psychiatric wards during her training years.
She has experience helping people with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, substance use, eating concerns, ADHD, and PTSD.
Background and approach
She has worked with members of the LGBTQ community and with people facing relationship and parenting challenges. Nichole has also supported clients dealing with grief, career stress, caregiving strain, and burnout-related issues. Nichole trained at Wayne State University, earning a Bachelor of Social Work in 2012 and completing an accelerated Master of Social Work in 2013.
Her clinical learning continued with internships at homeless shelters and residential programs, then later with a community mental health agency beginning in 2017. She has pursued additional training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT - and prolonged exposure, and has attended workshops in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - eating disorder treatment, and substance use care.
These trainings inform her practical work in sessions. In meetings she aims for openness and direct communication. Nichole describes herself as empathetic and genuine and prioritizes honest collaboration.
Parents and caregivers looking for clear, straightforward support around parenting, family concerns, or stress-related issues may find her approach accessible.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into patterns of thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating concerns.Nichole approaches the choice of therapy as a team effort. She consults with people about symptoms, goals, and what feels doable. Together they pick or blend techniques that fit the client’s situation and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers real flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, family, and caregiving responsibilities. The format also lets people use tools learned in sessions in real time at home, and therapists can help adjust exercises so they work in daily life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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