Nicole Neal, LPCC

Nicole Neal is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in New Mexico with 24 years of experience focused on trauma and addiction. She works with people confronting depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, and the impacts of verbal, emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, as well as those managing psychotic disorders.

Her clinical work spans a broad range of concerns including stress, grief, family and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping challenges, parenting and workplace struggles, anger and self-esteem difficulties, career transitions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include divorce and separation, domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, eating and food-related problems, guilt and shame, life purpose, panic and mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, and women's issues.

Nicole integrates a client-centered stance with practical, skills-based methods such as cognitive behavioral and trauma-focused techniques to help clients build coping strategies and address patterns that maintain distress. She also draws on elements of dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when they fit a person’s goals, using a flexible, individualized approach to care.

Her orientation reflects the idea that therapy is a collaborative relationship between two responsible individuals; the therapist’s role is to invite careful self-examination and support clients who choose to pursue greater freedom and responsibility. As an LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - she provides services by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging, adapting methods to each person’s needs.