Nicole Shaddix-Olsen

Nicole Shaddix-Olsen is a licensed counselor practicing with nine years of experience. She holds LCPC and LPC credentials and offers a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting, trauma, and grief. She emphasizes practical steps and steady support as people work toward clearer goals and better day-to-day coping.

Nicole frames therapy around Trauma-Focused Therapy and attachment ideas to help people process painful events and rebuild safer ways of relating. She also draws on client-centered listening and skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help with emotion regulation and difficult conversations. Sessions can include grounding and body-focused practices when helpful.

Her background includes nine years of professional work that covered family conflict, relationship struggles, and trauma and abuse. This experience informs a straightforward approach that focuses on what is happening now and what needs to change for daily life to feel more manageable. She encourages short-term goals alongside deeper, longer-term work.

Nicole invites people to bring what they are dealing with - parenting strain, career stress, addiction concerns, or questions about identity and intimacy. She aims to build practical coping tools, improve communication, and reduce symptoms that get in the way of everyday life.

Clients can expect a collaborative process where the therapist listens first, then offers strategies tailored to each person’s needs. The work balances emotional processing with hands-on skills so people leave sessions with clearer next steps.

How her approaches translate to online care

Nicole uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people explore and process painful events. That approach focuses on safe pacing, identifying trauma symptoms, and building skills to reduce their impact on daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy is another key approach; it looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people form more stable, trusting ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy underpins her work by prioritizing listening and following the client’s lead so goals match what matters most.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. She collaborates with each person to decide whether trauma-focused work, attachment work, or a skills-based path like DBT best fits the situation. Goals, preferences, and current challenges guide the plan rather than a single predetermined method.

The therapist’s biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available online options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when a full in-person visit isn’t possible. It also supports continuity of care for people who move or travel. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, grounding techniques, and skills training to an online setting so the work stays practical and focused on everyday improvements.