Nicole L. Gougeon

**Friday Openings for New Clients* Gain resiliency skills, insight, and practical tools to cope with daily challenges to decrease your anxiety, improve your relationships, and create long term change. My approach is collaborative, client-centered and focused on helping you develop the behaviors and mindset to become who you want to be. I use traditional talk therapy, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness and behavior strategies. I can be gently direct at times with the goal of challenging you. I may use humor or just sit with you while you learn to sit with difficult feelings. I offer extensive experience with anxiety/panic disorders, effective parenting for ADHD, and I help individuals and families cope with major life changes (e.g.- empty nest, divorce, aging parents, grief, health issues). I also am a licensed Sandcastles facilitator for children of divorce and want to help parents meet the needs of their kids during a divorce. In my 24 years of working with adults, families and children, I’ve been privileged to witness many clients experience authentic and meaningful change. Whether you are healing from the past, moving into a new phase of life, or simply searching for more purpose and meaning, therapy can help you find your way to feeling joy again.