Nikki Ciletti, LPC

Nikki Ciletti is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with 24 years of experience helping people navigate major life transitions and everyday challenges. She brings a practical, empathetic style to work with individuals and families facing stress, anxiety, addiction, parenting concerns, career shifts, and relationship difficulties. Her practice also addresses trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem struggles, depression, and coping with life changes.

Nikki has extensive experience supporting clients through adoption and foster care dynamics, blended family concerns, and the needs of neurodiverse individuals, including autism and Asperger syndrome. She works with people dealing with codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, domestic violence, substance use issues, panic and social anxiety, and compassion fatigue. Her background in family systems and addiction recovery informs a collaborative, respectful approach that helps clients build practical strategies for emotional well-being.

Grounded in client-centered principles and informed by approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Nikki tailors care to each person s goals and circumstances. She seeks to create an atmosphere of understanding and mutual work toward lasting change.

Therapeutic Methods for Online Support and Growth

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the person s perspective through empathetic listening and genuine acceptance. This approach helps clients explore their values, build self-esteem, and find their own solutions to challenges such as relationship strain, parenting stress, or life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, depression, panic symptoms, and many forms of stress by teaching practical skills for coping and problem solving.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people access and work with core emotions and attachment patterns, which can improve intimacy, family communication, and healing after loss or relational trauma.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Nikki collaborates with each client to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and personal preferences, adjusting the plan over time as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage in care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, accommodate different locations and time zones, and maintain continuity of support when in-person visits are not possible.