About Nicole
Nicole Bebiak is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, and parenting concerns. She welcomes questions about identity and LGBT issues, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and challenges like low self-esteem or anger. Nicole uses a straightforward, supportive style and encourages small, practical steps toward change.
Nicole earned a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology and has worked as a counselor since 1999, giving her 24 years of experience.
Background and approach
She has practiced in settings such as domestic violence services, crisis lines, community mental health, and a behavioral health hospital. That variety shaped a flexible approach to common life problems. Her sessions are grounded in a client-centered stance.
That means Nicole listens first and helps people find their own answers rather than handing down solutions. She blends methods when helpful, drawing on cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative work to match each person’s needs. Nicole aims to meet people where they are and treat the whole person, not just symptoms.
In practice that looks like problem-solving, teaching coping skills, building communication, and gently challenging unhelpful patterns. She also supports people recovering from trauma and those managing complex mood or attention concerns. Nicole holds an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential and an Indiana Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential.
She offers sessions in English and provides several online formats to fit different schedules and preferences. If someone prefers a steady, practical, and empathetic guide, she can be that partner on the path forward.
Practical approaches for online counseling and change
Nicole blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness work to help people online. Client-centered work means the therapist listens closely and helps the client identify goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, and relationship patterns. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and increase emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Nicole will talk with each person about their goals, daily life, and what feels most useful. Over a few sessions she will suggest strategies and adjust methods so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single model.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow visual connection for deeper conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or school commitments and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English