Nicole Garza , LCSW

Nicole Garza is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and major life shifts. She also supports those navigating intimacy and relationship struggles, LGBT-related concerns, and caregiver stress.

Nicole emphasizes a straightforward, relationship-centered approach. She aims to build trust so people can speak honestly about hard things. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings and on tracking progress toward clear goals.

Her background includes work across multiple states and experience with military-related issues from her time as an Army veteran. That history informs her calm, steady style when supporting people through trauma, loss, or career and role changes.

Nicole uses a mix of approaches to meet each person’s needs. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice what matters, cognitive behavioral techniques to untangle thinking patterns, and attachment-informed work to improve relationships and closeness.

People who choose Nicole can expect direct conversation, concrete tools, and a plan they helped shape. She helps people break large problems into manageable steps and checks progress along the way.

How evidence-based approaches translate online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that align with those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and the life changes that feel overwhelming.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. This approach can reduce anxious and low mood symptoms by changing patterns of thinking and behavior.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape connection and trust. It can help with intimacy issues, relationship conflict, abandonment feelings, and building more secure bonds.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Nicole will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to solve. The plan can change over time as progress and needs evolve.

Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility while keeping focus on practical skills, emotion regulation, and relationship work.