Nicole Bakewell
Practical, compassionate therapy for everyday challenges
LMHC Florida
- Experience
- 8 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Nicole
Nicole Bakewell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life changes. She offers a straightforward, compassionate style and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Background and approach
Nicole speaks English and works with adults on a range of concerns including parenting stress, grief, addictions, and mood struggles. She draws on several approaches to tailor care to each person’s needs.
Sessions emphasize understanding attachment patterns, improving communication, and teaching concrete skills to manage emotions and behavior. Nicole uses elements of the Gottman Method to address relationship dynamics alongside cognitive and behavioral strategies for day-to-day coping.
Her background includes eight years providing clinical services in community mental health and through telehealth. That experience shaped a down-to-earth way of working that centers listening and collaboration.
She aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can set realistic goals and try new ways of handling hard situations. In practice she focuses on trauma-informed, behavior-centered care that pairs skill-building with emotional processing.
Nicole helps people manage symptoms like sleep disruption, low self-esteem, anger, and difficulties with intimacy. She also supports those dealing with chronic illness, caregiving strain, adoption and foster care concerns, and identity-related stress.
Sessions are offered across multiple formats to fit different schedules. Nicole encourages clients to bring practical concerns and concrete goals so therapy stays focused and useful.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Nicole commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and closeness. This approach helps people understand emotional triggers and build more supported ways of relating to others.She also integrates the Gottman Method to address relationship patterns and communication. Gottman-informed work focuses on improving how partners talk, repair conflicts, and rebuild connection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, used alongside these approaches, offers practical techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety active.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Nicole will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls are useful for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets someone check in quickly during a busy day, and messaging supports short updates and ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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Experience
8+ years
Licensed in
Florida
Languages
English