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Nicole Lewis

Nicole Lewis, LMHC

New York

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Licensed Mental Health Counselor - relationships and anger

  • Relationship issues
  • Anger management
  • Self esteem

About Nicole

Nicole Lewis is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with 20 years of experience. She works with adults on relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, motivation, and anger among other stressors. She uses straightforward conversation to help people untangle what feels stuck and to identify practical next steps.

Nicole focuses on problems that often overlap - stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, and career strain. She also helps with parenting questions, divorce and separation, and the fallout from infidelity or commitment concerns. Her background includes long-term work with people facing serious life transitions and caregiving or hospice situations.

Her approach is direct and respectful. Sessions are used to talk through communication problems, control or codependency patterns, and old attachment wounds. She helps people notice how reactions build over time and how those patterns affect close relationships.

Nicole aims to set clear goals together and to try concrete strategies in session. That can include practicing new ways of speaking up, testing small changes between meetings, and building steady coping tools for stress and anger. She explains options simply and checks in about what is working.

She practices in New York and offers services in English. The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short questionnaire is completed and a first session is scheduled through the online booking flow.

How evidence-based methods shape online sessions

Nicole uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in clear, practical ways. One common approach focuses on communication skills and behavior change, teaching specific ways to speak up and respond differently in tense moments. This helps with relationship conflict, anger that surfaces in close connections, and patterns like avoidance or withdrawal.

A second approach looks at attachment and long-term patterns from past relationships. It helps people recognize how old expectations and fears push reactions now, and it supports learning new ways of relating that reduce repeated conflict and resentment.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which techniques to try based on current problems, goals, and personal preferences. Sessions include reviewing what helped, adjusting strategies, and planning practical experiments to use between meetings.

Confirm the specific session formats before booking, as the biography does not list formats explicitly. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Licensed professionals commonly adapt exercises for video or phone meetings so progress can continue without rearranging a full day.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesSelf esteemCoping with life changes

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseGriefParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesDepressionCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesCancerCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDivorce and separationDomestic violenceFamily problemsForgivenessHospice and end-of-life counselingImmigration issuesInfidelityJealousyMidlife crisisMulticultural concernsPhobiasPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issues

Experience

20+ years

Listed in

New York

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she focus on?

She works with relationship and family problems, intimacy issues, self-esteem, stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, parenting, career strain, and anger among other areas.

How would you describe her way of working?

Nicole uses plain, direct conversation to identify patterns and set practical goals. She focuses on communication skills and small, testable changes between sessions.

How much experience does she have?

She has 20 years of professional experience as a clinician working with relational and life-change concerns.

What are her credentials and where does she practice?

She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) licensed in New York and practices in New York.

Which languages are supported in sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients work with her?

She does not accept international clients at this time.

How are sessions scheduled and what does it cost?

Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time and cost varies with location.

How do you start a first session?

Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

Whenever you are ready

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