Nicole Saunders

Nicole Saunders is a licensed mental health counselor with more than 21 years of experience. She works with people who are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed by life changes. Nicole also helps with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction issues, and parenting stress.

She treats each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions are tailored to the individual and guided by what the client needs most. Nicole asks new clients to complete an additional informed consent form before the first meeting.

Nicole blends mindfulness-based practices with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques. She uses attachment-focused ideas and a client-centered stance to help people understand patterns and make practical changes. Conversations are aimed at noticing difficult thoughts and feelings, then choosing actions that match personal values.

Her work often includes short skills practice, values clarification, and steady check-ins to track progress. She can support people coping with sleep problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, bipolar concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and chronic health stress. Nicole also offers later evening weekday hours and varying weekend availability to fit different schedules.

Nicole holds the Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential in Florida and Washington. She offers sessions in English and does not accept international clients. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button and completes a brief matching questionnaire before scheduling.

How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions

Nicole integrates Mindfulness Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Attachment-Based Therapy into her work. Mindfulness Therapy focuses on learning to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judging them, which can help with anxiety, sleep trouble, and stress. ACT helps people clarify their values and take committed steps toward those values even when strong feelings or doubts arise. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships, helping to identify how early connection styles affect current communication and trust.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Nicole works collaboratively to choose techniques that match a person’s goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. Sessions typically mix discussion, practical exercises, and short at-home practices to reinforce what was covered in session.

Confirm the session formats available before booking, since the biography does not list specific online options. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example by avoiding travel time, allowing later evening appointments, or enabling shorter check-ins when days are hectic. Licensed professionals can adapt mindfulness and ACT exercises to work well over distance, helping clients build new habits and handle stressful moments as they come up.