- CBT strategies
- DBT skills
- Mindfulness practice
About Audra
Audra Nihart is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 16 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, depression, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Audra also lists blended family issues among her areas of focus, along with communication problems and codependency.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people sort through what feels stuck. Sessions are practical and aimed at making daily life more manageable. She draws on methods from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to guide those conversations.
Audra pays attention to how patterns in thinking and behavior affect relationships and mood. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try different responses, and practice skills for handling stress and panic symptoms. Mindfulness work is used to reduce reactivity and increase awareness of present-moment choices.
When parenting or blended household tensions come up, she helps individuals sort priorities and set clearer boundaries. Communication skills and problem-solving are common topics in sessions. Forgiveness work and managing compassion fatigue are addressed with steady, practical steps rather than abstract talk.
Her approach stresses collaboration: setting goals together, tracking progress, and adjusting methods when needed. Audra asks about what is working at home and what needs to change, then uses a mix of skills and talk to move toward those goals. To begin, prospective clients follow an online matching process and schedule a first session.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy centers the person's perspective and priorities. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and uses the client's goals to shape each session. This approach helps when a person needs to explore feelings about changing household roles or parenting decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It introduces simple experiments and practical exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and reduce anxiety or low mood. CBT can be useful for panic symptoms, social anxiety, and the everyday stress of blended household logistics.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Skills include emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer interpersonal effectiveness. These techniques can help when family conversations escalate or when compassion fatigue makes it hard to cope.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, then adjust based on what proves useful. The focus is on finding practical strategies that suit the individual's life and responsibilities.
Confirm the available session formats before booking because the biography does not list specific options. Online work can make fitting therapy into a busy schedule easier, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and skill practice to the online setting so momentum continues between sessions.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
16+ years
Listed in
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, parenting issues, depression, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include blended family issues, codependency, communication problems, and panic symptoms.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses a practical, collaborative approach that blends client-centered conversation with evidence-informed methods like CBT, DBT, and mindfulness. Sessions focus on skills and problem solving rather than only talk.
How long has she practiced?
She has 16 years of professional experience working with the listed concerns and approaches in Pennsylvania.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Pennsylvania.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not specify which formats are used. Please check the online listing for the latest details.
How are session costs handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Check the platform details for specific pricing information.
How do I get started with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session through the platform.
Online talk therapy is for adults and is not emergency care, mediation or legal advice. If you or a child are in danger, use the emergency numbers. Find someone else by name.