Therapist in Portland, Maine Nicole Firth, Therapist

Nicole is a Licensed Clinical Social worker, who earned her Master of Social work degree from the University of New England in 2013. During her previous work experience, she worked in various clinical settings focusing on medical social work, community case management, domestic violence advocacy, and counseling clients with co-occurring disorders. Recently she has worked in a hospital detox, as a Home-based Community Therapy clinician, and a Primary Therapist at a men’s residential program and has over 10 years of experience. Nicole utilizes several different therapeutic approaches, but enjoys motivational interviewing the most. Nicole provides both brief and long-term therapy to adolescents and adults. She also enjoys treating Substance Abuse/Misuse, Families, Autism spectrum disorders, Men’s issues, Women’s issues, Personality Disorder’s, Sleep issues, and Trauma. Her approach helps foster vulnerability by exploring challenges around trust and connection through processing thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Nicole is interested in working with anyone over the age of 15 who is willing. She is experienced with working with people seeking or living in recovery. Nicole is a kind and compassionate listener whose goal is to have clients feel safe and work on building a trusting therapeutic alliance. Her work draws from various evidence-based approaches, including Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Brief Solution Focused Therapy. She uses 12 step and mindfulness concepts to assist clients with learning to be more present and accepting of their lives by focusing on living one day at a time.