About Nicole
Nicole Durant is a licensed professional clinical counselor in Ohio with 13 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma or low self-esteem. Nicole focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life feel more manageable and possible to change.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can name what is hard and try new ways of responding. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what will help this person live with more ease.
Background and approach
Nicole aims to make the work feel clear and doable rather than vague or overwhelming. Her approach draws on body-focused work alongside talk therapy. She also uses client-centered methods and tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
These methods help people notice patterns, shift unhelpful thoughts, and practice new coping skills in real situations. Nicole often supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment concerns, family of origin stress, caregiving strain, control issues, or intense shame and guilt. She also helps those facing panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, phobias, and major life transitions.
Sessions are aimed at building steady, practical strategies that fit each person's needs. Nicole meets people where they are and helps them take manageable steps toward feeling more confident and connected in daily life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic work pays attention to sensations in the body and how they connect to emotions; online sessions can include guided grounding and simple movement or breath awareness to help reduce stress and panic. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels heard and understood, which can be done effectively over video or phone. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses clear experiments and homework to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and those exercises translate well to remote formats where goals and tasks are tracked together.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try techniques together and adjust as needed. That way the care matches the client's needs rather than fitting the client to a single method.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and let people choose how they communicate on days when in-person meetings aren’t possible. For many, remote sessions allow steady progress using practical tools and regular check-ins without extra travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English