Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
How Nicole works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Nicole
Nicole Lewandowski is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, grief, and relationship concerns. She offers a calm, respectful presence and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Nicole works with adults across a wide range of challenges, including depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, addiction, and compassion fatigue.
Her sessions are interactive and grounded in everyday language. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals.
Background and approach
Conversations lead to simple tools people can try right away for mood, sleep, or impulsive reactions. Nicole draws on several evidence-informed methods to fit each person’s needs. She uses client-centered ideas to build trust, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, and dialectical skills to manage strong emotions.
She also integrates trauma-focused work and mindfulness when those approaches fit the situation. Over two decades she has supported people facing loss, abuse, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and neurodiversity such as autism spectrum challenges. She pays attention to how caregiving roles, work stress, and identity issues affect daily life.
Nicole describes her style as warm, direct, and nonjudgmental. She helps people break problems into manageable steps and encourages small, sustainable changes. If someone is ready to take a next step, she guides them through goal setting and practical skill-building.
What Nicole works with
Everything Nicole lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Nicole's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Control issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Nicole lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on a supportive relationship and on helping people feel heard. Online sessions use that same stance to build trust and set goals that matter to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets specific thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework to reduce anxiety, depression, and anger. DBT skills teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication techniques that help when reactions become overwhelming.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about current struggles, past responses that helped or hurt, and what the client wants to change. Together they try methods and adjust plans based on what works, so the treatment evolves with the person’s needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video makes it easier to use worksheets and role-plays during a session. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or require less data. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions and work through smaller tasks or coaching-style support. These options offer flexibility for different schedules, energy levels, and communication preferences.
Questions people ask about Nicole
What concerns does Nicole address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, anger, grief, depression, bipolar concerns, addictions, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Additional focuses include trauma, caregiver stress, body image, and impulsivity.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is warm and interactive with clear, practical tools. Sessions emphasize listening first, then building doable skills and steps to try between visits.
How much experience does she have?
Nicole has 20 years of experience working as a social worker and therapist in clinical roles. That background includes work with trauma, abuse, and a range of mood and behavioral concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - licensed in Wisconsin. Her practice is based in Wisconsin.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How are costs handled and how do I begin?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.