Nicole Wheeler

Nicole Wheeler, LPC, is a licensed counselor in Pennsylvania with six years of counseling experience and twenty-seven years working in the mental health field. She has worked across settings with families, parents, at-risk youth, and people managing chronic illness. Her clinical interests include obsessive compulsive disorder, including skin picking and hair pulling, Autism, family dynamics, and the needs of transition-aged clients.

Her primary therapeutic approach is Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which she uses to teach about thinking processes, coping skills, and ways to restructure thinking. She also brings training in Habit Reversal, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, COMB, and exposure and response prevention. Those approaches inform work on identifying triggers, altering environments, and building practical skills.

Wheeler uses a SELF model she developed that focuses on soul searching, altering one’s environment, learning to love oneself, and forgiving oneself. She views telehealth as a way to plant seeds for growth, particularly for clients beginning treatment, and notes that telehealth is best suited for general mild to moderate mental health issues. When trauma is present, especially moderate to severe trauma, she indicates that in-person treatment with a focus on EMDR may be more appropriate and asks for detailed information on symptoms during intake.