About Nicole
Nicole Merhaut is a licensed marriage and family therapist who draws on practical, goal-focused methods. She combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and warm. Nicole aims to help clients find clear steps forward.
She trained in marriage and family therapy and has eight years of clinical experience in community mental health roles. That background shaped her focus on common life challenges like depression, coping with change, and parenting strains.
Nicole also works with concerns related to addiction, eating and food-related issues, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she emphasizes simple, everyday strategies people can use between meetings.
That might include trying a new way of responding to worry or setting one small goal to test what works. She explains how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses that to make practical changes.
Nicole also brings solution-focused methods that concentrate on strengths and next steps. Those approaches help when someone wants concrete progress on issues such as career decisions, relationship patterns, or managing chronic pain and illness.
Her practice is attentive to family of origin issues, blended family challenges, and divorce or separation matters. She offers a nonjudgmental, caring approach and works collaboratively to tailor plans that fit each person's life and goals.
How CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online
Nicole uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients see how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other. In practice this means identifying unhelpful thinking, testing different responses, and practicing new behaviors that reduce anxiety or improve mood.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to keep work practical and future-oriented. That approach centers on small, concrete goals and on noticing what already works so clients can build momentum toward change.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicole will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then adapt methods to match those needs. That way the plan feels realistic and useful rather than abstract.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual feedback. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, goal-setting, and ongoing coaching between longer meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English