- Anxiety management
- Relationship skills)
- Mindfulness practice
About Nicole
Nicole Ficano is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nine years of practice. She works with adults dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and addiction. Nicole lists young adult issues among her focuses and often helps people facing early-adulthood pressures like career choices, identity questions, and changing relationships.
Nicole uses straightforward, evidence-informed approaches in sessions. She listens for patterns in attachment, mood, and communication. From there she helps people try practical skills for managing anxiety, regulating emotions, and improving day-to-day functioning.
Sessions emphasize learning tools that can be used between meetings. That might include thought records from cognitive behavioral methods, emotion regulation skills drawn from dialectical behavior approaches, or mindful practices to reduce reactivity. Nicole also explores life meaning and values when people want deeper perspective shifts.
She commonly supports people working through grief, burnout, compulsive behaviors, and the fallout from past abuse. Nicole also helps clients think through career transitions, parenting stress, and challenges linked to sexual orientation and identity.
Her style is active and collaborative. Nicole helps set clear goals, checks progress, and adjusts strategies when something is not working. To begin, readers are asked to use the site process to match and schedule a first session.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Nicole integrates client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into her practice. Client-centered work focuses on understanding the person’s experience and priorities so the therapist and client can set meaningful goals together. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses clear exercises to change unhelpful patterns. DBT provides practical skills for emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance that can be practiced between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Nicole treats this as a collaborative process and will discuss which methods fit a person’s goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges. She checks progress and shifts strategies when needed so the plan stays useful.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow quicker check-ins when needed. It also supports using worksheets, guided exercises, and mindfulness practices during and between appointments to help translate learning into daily life.
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Primary focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
9+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, addiction, and related concerns such as grief, self-esteem, and career changes.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses client-centered work with clear, practical techniques from CBT and DBT plus mindfulness and existential conversations when people want them.
How long has she been practicing?
She has nine years of clinical experience working with adults on mood, trauma, and interpersonal issues.
Where is she licensed to practice?
She is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor, listed as NY LMHC and practices from New York.
Can she work with people who speak other languages?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Does she accept clients from other countries?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions scheduled and paid for?
Cost varies by location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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