Nicole Spahl is a licensed professional counselor in Arizona with 27 years of experience.
01About Nicole
Nicole Spahl is a licensed professional counselor in Arizona with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people reduce stress, manage anxiety, and work through trauma and life transitions. Nicole aims to build a respectful therapeutic relationship where people feel heard and supported as they make changes.
Her style is centered on the person in front of her. She uses attachment ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Emotionally-focused and client-centered approaches guide how she tunes into feelings and strengthens self-understanding. Nicole works with a wide range of concerns, including depression, parenting challenges, ADHD, relationship and family issues, and mood disorders.
She also pays attention to issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care, and postpartum depression when they are part of a person's story. Her practice includes support for people facing compassion fatigue, isolation, and life changes. Sessions tend to be direct and practical.
Nicole helps people name problems, notice patterns, and try small experiments between sessions. She offers encouragement while helping clients build skills to cope with panic, anger, or low self-esteem. People who want a steady, relationship-focused counselor may find her approach helpful.
She aims to tailor the work to each person's goals and pace, and to help them find clearer ways to manage emotions and strengthen important relationships.
02Credentials
- LPC (Arizona)
- License LPC-12344 · expires May 2026
- NPI
- 1295828234 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Nicole lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Methods Nicole names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Nicole names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current ways of connecting. Online sessions use conversation and exercises to notice patterns, repair emotional responses, and build more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. In remote sessions this often means tracking thoughts between meetings and trying brief experiments at home or work to see what changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress is made or new issues come up, and the process is discussed openly in sessions.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and hold a more typical session feel. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins, skill practice, or brief support easier to fit into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent across work, family, or travel demands.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
Nicole supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, parenting challenges, relationship and family issues, bipolar and mood disorders, ADHD, and related concerns listed in her specialties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is relationship-centered and practical. She combines attachment ideas, client-centered listening, CBT and emotion-focused work to help people notice patterns and try new ways of coping.
How much experience does she have?
She has worked in counseling for 27 years and brings long-term experience helping people with mood, trauma, and relationship concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Arizona and provides services while operating from that state.
Which languages are supported and can international clients work together?
Sessions are offered in English and she does accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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