About Nicole
Nicole Bakewell is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and addiction. She uses practical, down-to-earth methods and a calm presence to help people manage symptoms and find clearer ways forward. Nicole practices online and works with clients across Florida and beyond in English.
She draws on somatic techniques to help people reconnect with body sensations tied to emotion. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in close relationships and client-centered methods to follow what each person needs in the session.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are used when clients want concrete skills for mood, thinking, or emotion regulation. Nicole has eight years of clinical experience and a Florida LMHC license - FL LMHC MH18602. Her background includes community mental health and telehealth settings.
That mix shaped a practical style that emphasizes safety, pacing, and real-life application. Sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, so people can choose what fits their schedule. Nicole typically schedules Monday through Friday, early morning to evening, with occasional weekend times and flexibility by discussion.
She frames therapy as a collaboration. People set goals together and try small changes between sessions. The focus is on reducing distress, improving relationships, and building skills for daily life.
How Nicole pairs therapy approaches with online care
Nicole integrates somatic methods to help people notice and work with bodily sensations linked to stress and trauma; this can help when emotions feel overwhelming or stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to explore patterns in close relationships and to build safer ways of connecting with others. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the focus on the person in front of her, shaping sessions around individual goals and what feels most helpful in the moment.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. Nicole will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods, track what helps, and adjust the plan over time so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That flexibility can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, continue work during life changes, or use shorter check-ins when needed. Many people find online options help them keep consistency while applying skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English