Nicole Ficano, LMHC

Nicole Ficano is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nine years of clinical experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and parenting concerns. She works with individuals who are dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, and life transitions. Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer communication rather than labels or jargon.

Nicole uses client-centered methods to listen and create a plan with each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Mindfulness and existential ideas are also woven in to help people find meaning and steady their attention.

In practice she helps people notice patterns from attachment histories that affect current relationships. That can mean talking through boundaries, codependency, or struggles around intimacy and trust. She also supports adults facing parenting strain, caregiving fatigue, or the emotional fallout of major life changes.

Sessions typically include clear, concrete tools to try between meetings. Nicole emphasizes learning skills for calming anxiety, managing urges tied to addiction, and improving everyday communication. She also works on sleep and eating concerns linked to mood and stress.

Her style is straightforward and focused on what clients want to change. People who prefer practical skills, short experiments, and checking progress each week often find this approach useful. Nicole offers services in English and practices in New York.

How her approaches translate to online sessions