About Cory
Cory Nicolas is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people work through stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and the effects of trauma. She writes plainly and meets people where they are, focusing on clear steps that reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning. Cory draws on a trauma-informed perspective to show how past experiences shape present behavior.
She helps people notice patterns, name what feels off, and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and aimed at practical change rather than long lectures. Her background includes work with a wide range of concerns such as family problems, communication breakdowns, caregiver stress, codependency, and panic attacks. Cory also supports people dealing with infidelity, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose.
She brings 13 years of clinical experience to each appointment. Approaches used in her practice include trauma-informed methods, brainspotting, cognitive-behavioral ideas, and mindfulness practices adapted to each person’s needs. Cory explains strategies in simple language and helps people practice them between sessions so gains stick.
Based in Hawaii, Cory holds the credential LCPC and is licensed as an LMHC in Hawaii. She offers a straightforward, empathetic style that aims to help people feel safer in their bodies and clearer about next steps.
Practical approaches and online care
Cognitive-behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. This approach helps with anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias by teaching skills that reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.Brainspotting and other trauma-informed methods help people locate and process stored emotional responses tied to past events. These techniques aim to reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions and make it easier to respond differently in triggering situations.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That process may combine short-term skill building with deeper trauma work as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while working with licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Nevada
- Languages
- English