Nina Powell
Compassionate support for families facing change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Maine
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Nina
Nina Powell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with three decades of hands-on experience. She uses clear, practical methods to help families and individuals when life becomes overwhelming. Nina listens first, then works together with clients to find manageable next steps.
She keeps language simple and focuses on what can be done now to ease stress and grief. Her work centers on family and parenting needs as part of longer experience supporting adults, children, and caregivers through serious illness and loss.
Background and approach
She has spent many years supporting people facing cancer, chronic illness, and end-of-life concerns. That experience includes counseling caregivers about compassion fatigue, self-image changes, and how to help children cope. Nina draws on several therapy styles to fit each person’s situation.
She uses client-centered approaches to follow what matters most to the family. She also incorporates cognitive behavioral techniques to address patterns of worry and unhelpful thoughts. Emotionally-focused and narrative methods help people talk through strong feelings and make sense of painful events.
Across sessions she aims for straightforward guidance and practical tools. That can mean coping strategies for stress and anxiety, ways to process grief after sudden loss, or support preparing for major life changes. Her goal is to help people regain some calm and clearer direction.
Nina practices in Florida and provides services in English. With thirty-one years of practice, she brings long-term field experience to each conversation. She invites families and caregivers who need steady support to consider reaching out.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the client. Online sessions make it easy to have those conversations from home, so the therapist and family can build trust and identify practical goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In virtual sessions CBT can be used to teach specific coping skills, challenge unhelpful thinking, and practice small behavioral changes between meetings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and sit with strong feelings and repair family connections. That approach can be effective online for guiding emotionally charged conversations and helping family members respond differently to one another.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to emphasize listening, skill building, emotion work, or a combination of methods depending on the situation.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist see family dynamics in real time. Phone sessions are available for those who prefer voice only. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins and support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and maintain steady follow-up when life gets stressful.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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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
Next step
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