About Niki
Niki Mullis helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns. She also supports people working on self-esteem, motivation, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Niki is a licensed marriage and family therapist in North Carolina with six years of clinical experience. She uses a straightforward, respectful style in sessions.
Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs. Niki aims to build practical skills alongside deeper understanding so people can manage day-to-day challenges more easily.
Her approach draws on attachment ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
When past distress is overwhelming, she may integrate EMDR to address painful memories. Niki also incorporates client-centered principles to keep the work focused on what matters to the client.
For relationship or intimacy concerns she may use aspects of the Gottman Method to improve communication and connection. Treatment plans are discussed and adjusted as progress is made.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort. Niki emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in the room.
She helps clients set realistic goals and build skills they can use outside sessions.
How specific approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns. Online sessions can use that lens to map how attachment shows up in stress and intimacy concerns and practice new ways of relating.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In video or phone sessions, a therapist and client can work through thought records, try behavioral experiments, and set small, trackable goals.
EMDR is used when painful memories continue to cause distress. Elements of EMDR can be adapted to online formats to process past events and reduce their intensity under the therapist's guidance.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit their needs and goals. Sessions begin with a conversation about priorities and are adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for deeper conversational work and exercises, phone sessions can suit lower bandwidth or brief check-ins, live chat is useful for focused problem-solving, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English