Nina Powell, LCSW

Florida · 31 years in practice

Nina Powell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of clinical experience.

License and registration

LCSW, Florida: SW3763 · expires March 2027
LCSW, Maine: LC21593 · expires August 2026
NPI: 1396317533 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 31
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Nina

Nina Powell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of clinical experience. She listens closely and centers emotion in sessions, drawing on approaches like Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people name and work through painful feelings. Her style is warm and practical, focused on small steps that can be used between sessions.

She spent many years supporting people affected by cancer, helping patients and caregivers cope with treatment, role changes, and shifts in self-image.

Background and approach

That work included end-of-life conversations, hospice and palliative care perspectives, and bereavement counseling after sudden losses. Nina has also supported people living with disabilities and survivors of domestic violence as they manage daily stressors. Nina uses Client-Centered Therapy to create an accepting space where people guide the pace of their work.

She applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors. Narrative and psychodynamic ideas are woven in when useful to understand life stories and long-standing patterns. Common concerns she helps people address include grief, anxiety, depression, compassion fatigue, relationship and family stress, anger, low self-esteem, chronic illness, chronic pain, and coping with major life changes.

She also supports issues such as caregiving strain, aging and geriatric needs, abandonment, and trauma-related concerns. Sessions are offered from Florida and conducted in English. Nina aims to collaborate with each person to set clear goals and use approaches that fit their needs and values.

She guides practical next steps and focuses on manageable change over time.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Nina lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Grief
Coping with life changes
Compassion fatigue
Stress, Anxiety
LGBT
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Depression
Coaching
Abandonment
Aging and geriatric issues
Body image
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Co-morbidity
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Divorce and separation
Emptiness
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Post-traumatic stress
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Nina names

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Online support

How emotion-focused work translates to online therapy

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and make sense of strong feelings, then use those emotions to guide healing. It can be useful for grief, relationship strain, loss, and big life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental listening stance where the person leads the pace of the work and decides what matters most to address.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and helps people try new ways of responding to stress and anxiety. Together these approaches let Nina shift between validating feelings, exploring personal stories, and practicing concrete skills depending on what a person needs.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nina collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She checks in about what is helping and adapts the plan over time so therapy stays relevant and useful.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is often used for deeper conversations and working through emotions, phone can be easier when bandwidth or movement is a concern, and text or chat can support brief check-ins or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to use the format that feels most practical for each person.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does Nina help with?

She works with grief, anxiety, depression, relationship and family stress, compassion fatigue, chronic illness and pain, and caregiving strain among other issues.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Nina centers emotion and uses a warm, practical approach. She combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas with client-centered listening and goal-oriented work.

How much experience does she have?

She has 31 years of clinical experience working with people affected by cancer, disability, domestic violence, and bereavement.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing from Florida with licensure noted as FL LCSW and ME LCSW.

In which languages are sessions offered?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Work is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How does cost and payment work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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