Nicole Wheeler

Nicole Wheeler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 6 years of counseling experience and a total of 27 years in the mental health field. She brings a grounded, practical style to therapy, drawing on extensive work with family dynamics, parenting concerns, autism, at-risk youth, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and the day-to-day challenges that can come with chronic illness.

She especially enjoys supporting transition-aged clients and people navigating OCD-related patterns such as skin picking and hair pulling. Her primary method is Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MBCBT), which blends skills for noticing thoughts and feelings with strategies for changing unhelpful thinking patterns. Through this approach, she helps clients build understanding of mental health, learn coping tools, and practice restructuring thoughts in ways that support emotional relief and steadier functioning.

Nicole is also trained in Habit Reversal, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), COMB, and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). These approaches can help clients recognize triggers, adjust routines and environments, and strengthen coping skills for OCD. ERP, in particular, uses gradual exposure to feared situations to reduce distress over time. She is guided by the idea that each person can shape their own life story, and she incorporates her own SELF model focused on soul searching, altering one’s environment, learning self-love, and practicing self-forgiveness.

Nicole views telehealth as a supportive way to begin planting the seeds for growth, particularly for clients who are new to therapy. She notes that online care is generally best suited for mild to moderate concerns rather than severe mental illness. While she has experience with trauma, she also emphasizes that moderate to severe trauma is often best addressed in person, particularly with a focus on EMDR. She invites clients to share detailed intake information about current symptoms and the scope of trauma so she can determine whether her online services are the right fit.