About Nichole
Nichole Proulx is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Maine with 13 years in counseling. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship problems.
Background and approach
Her approach aims to help clients feel more capable and clear about their next steps. She draws from several practical methods to match each person’s needs.
Sessions often include skills for mood and anxiety management, ways to improve communication, and tools to handle life transitions. She emphasizes using clients’ strengths so they can make changes that feel realistic.
Nichole favors a person-centered style and works to build a respectful, honest relationship. She listens and follows the client’s lead when that helps, and asks questions or offers structure when people need direction.
Humor and straightforward feedback are part of her approach when appropriate. Her work includes helping people navigate family and parenting concerns, blended family issues, and relationship conflicts.
She also supports those coping with grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, and identity questions such as LGBT concerns. Trauma-related issues, dissociation, and post-traumatic stress are within her areas of focus.
Therapeutic methods Nichole commonly uses include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques, Motivational Interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. She offers a flexible mix of short-term skill building and longer-term exploration based on what each person needs.
Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People interested in starting can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then commit to actions that match personal values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for mood disorders, panic, and worry.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different methods to see what helps most. Together you will decide whether short skill-based work or deeper exploration is the best fit for current concerns.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you use visual cues for relationship and communication work. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, and follow-up between longer sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English