Nicole Shaddix-Olsen , LCPC, LPC

Nicole Shaddix-Olsen uses relationship-focused approaches to help people find steadier ground during difficult times. She is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) and a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with nine years of work experience. Nicole welcomes conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, and the ups and downs that come with life changes.

She draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That can help when people feel stuck in repeated fights, clinginess, or avoiding closeness. She also uses client-centered methods to keep sessions grounded in each person’s priorities and pace.

For trauma and abuse, she includes tools that can reduce overwhelming memories and physical tension. Nicole uses mindfulness and somatic ideas to help people reconnect with their bodies and calm racing thoughts. She also incorporates elements from dialectical behavior therapy to teach practical skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Nicole has experience helping people with relationship strain, parenting stress, career transitions, grief, addiction concerns, ADHD, gender issues, and questions around intimacy. She aims to be direct and kind, inviting honest talk about what’s happening now and what someone hopes will change.

Her practice style is collaborative and paced to each person. Nicole helps clients set small goals and try concrete steps between sessions. She accepts international clients and provides sessions from Florida in English.

How attachment work and skills-based therapy translate online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past relationships shape current patterns of closeness and distance. Online sessions can use conversation and reflection to spot those patterns and try new ways of connecting. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsive behavior, and improving communication. Those skills translate well to video or text coaching and can be practiced between sessions. Mindfulness therapy offers simple attention and grounding exercises to reduce reactivity and calm the nervous system, which can be led in live sessions and reinforced through short exercises shared in chat.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean trying attachment-focused exploration for relationship patterns, adding DBT skills for emotion regulation, or layering in mindfulness practices for daily stress.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and practice interactions in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or the client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill coaching, and step-by-step homework. These options make therapy more flexible so people can connect when it fits their life.