Nicole Shaddix-Olsen

Nicole Shaddix-Olsen is a licensed counselor with nine years of clinical experience. She practices as an LCPC and an LPC and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and relationship challenges. She creates a calm space where clients can speak openly and begin practical changes one step at a time.

Nicole uses approaches that center on connection and present-moment skills. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current reactions. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.

Clients come to her for a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, addiction, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with identity matters such as LGBT concerns and gender dysphoria. Her work includes attention to self-esteem, intimacy issues, and coping with chronic illness or disability.

Nicole aims for straightforward, practical sessions. She listens first and then helps people try small behavior and thinking changes that fit their life. She blends mindfulness techniques with somatic and EMDR-informed methods when trauma and body-based symptoms are present.

Originally licensed in Kansas, she practices with a focus on clear communication and steady support. Nicole encourages people to take the first step toward change and offers collaborative guidance through the process.

How her approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can be used to notice recurring relationship reactions and practice new ways of connecting with others. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes concrete skills for managing intense emotion, improving relationships, and tolerating distress; she teaches these skills in short, doable steps that clients can try between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, strengths, and preferences. That choice is revisited as therapy progresses so methods can change if something is not helping.

The biography did not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make regular check-ins easier and help fit sessions into busy lives. It can also allow shorter skill-focused meetings or longer trauma-focused sessions depending on what a person needs and what formats the therapist offers.