Nicole Forester
Compassionate, direct support for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LPC, LPCC
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- California, Colorado, Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Nicole
Nicole Forester is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in California. She offers steady, nonjudgmental listening for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, and other life changes.
Her approach is direct but warm - she invites straightforward conversation so clients can say what they need to say and begin to find a clearer path forward. Nicole draws on 16 years of clinical experience across many settings.
Background and approach
She has worked in inpatient units, addiction treatment, outpatient therapy, hospice, and with crisis teams. That background shapes how she meets people: practical, grounded, and attentive to immediate needs as well as longer-term goals. In sessions she uses a mix of methods to match each person’s situation.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with changing unhelpful thoughts and routines. Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports work on closeness and communication. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take action even with hard feelings.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She encourages clients to ask questions and to “interview” a therapist to find a good fit. Nicole explains options and helps build small, manageable steps toward change.
Nicole earned a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling in 2007 and has provided independent practice and program-based care. She works in English and practices from Colorado. To begin, she asks that people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to available times.
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choosing actions that align with your values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and making choices during life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to shift patterns that cause distress. It is useful for depression, anxiety, and habits people want to change. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand emotional responses and improve communication and closeness in relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Nicole will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then tailor methods to each person’s situation. The process is collaborative - she offers options and adjusts based on what helps clients make steady progress.
Online therapy with Nicole can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, allow follow-up between meetings, and let people connect from home or wherever they are. Licensed professionals can use these tools to provide consistent, ongoing support while adapting techniques to work in an online setting.
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.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California, Colorado, Utah
- Languages
- English
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