About Nicole
Nicole Bebiak brings 24 years of counseling experience to work with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem struggles, parenting concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related or anger problems.
Background and approach
She also addresses a wide range of related areas including abandonment, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family issues, body image, caregiver stress, co-morbidity, codependency, commitment and communication problems, control issues, responses to disasters, DMDD, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and feelings of emptiness.
Nicole is licensed in Indiana and Illinois as an LCPC and LMHC and applies a broad clinical toolkit to help clients manage life transitions and difficult emotions. Her practice emphasizes a client-centered stance that treats each person as a whole rather than a set of symptoms.
Nicole combines empathy and practical guidance with evidence-informed techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, narrative therapy, and other approaches. She has worked in domestic violence centers, crisis lines, community mental health agencies, and behavioral health hospitals, and uses that background to offer both immediate coping strategies and longer-term skill building.
Nicole partners with clients to explore goals, develop coping skills, and identify personal solutions that foster resilience and healthier patterns of living.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support
Nicole often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy as part of her online work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns so clients can develop practical coping strategies for anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and mood-related concerns. Mindfulness therapy helps people cultivate present-moment awareness and stress reduction skills that can ease emotional reactivity and improve self-regulation.Finding the right mix of methods is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist works with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences and then adapts techniques so the approach fits the individual rather than forcing a single model, ensuring that therapy evolves as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase access and flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity of care during life changes, and use different communication modes for skill practice, brief check-ins, or in-depth conversations with licensed professionals and therapists.
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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