Nicola Waisome-Crooks

Counselor Crooks is a compassionate and client-centered mental health professional dedicated to helping individuals build emotional strength, healing, and long-term stability. With a warm yet direct approach, she creates a safe space where clients feel heard, supported, and empowered to grow. Her counseling style blends practical coping strategies with deeper emotional work, helping clients navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, life transitions, and relationship challenges.

Known for her calm presence, strong advocacy, and ability to connect with diverse populations, Counselor Crooks focuses on real-life solutions while encouraging personal accountability and resilience. She is passionate about helping clients break unhealthy cycles, develop healthy boundaries, and create a more fulfilling life through intentional change, emotional wellness, and self-discovery.

Counselor Crooks uses a compassionate, client-centered approach that focuses on creating a safe, supportive space where individuals feel heard, respected, and empowered. She believes therapy should be both healing and practical, helping clients understand the root of their challenges while also building real-life coping skills they can apply daily.

Her approach is strengths-based and solution-focused, emphasizing emotional regulation, healthy communication, boundary-setting, and personal accountability. Counselor Crooks works collaboratively with clients to identify patterns, process trauma, manage stress, and build healthier thought processes and behaviors. She is passionate about helping individuals break cycles, increase self-awareness, and create lasting change through intentional growth and resilience.

Clients can expect their first session with Counselor Crooks to feel welcoming, supportive, and judgment-free. The first appointment is focused on building comfort, trust, and understanding what brings the client to therapy.

During the session, Counselor Crooks will ask questions about the client’s current concerns, emotional symptoms, life stressors, personal history, and goals for therapy. Clients will also have the opportunity to share what they feel ready to discuss at their own pace—there is no pressure to disclose everything at once.

Clients can expect to leave the first session with a clearer understanding of the counseling process, an initial plan for treatment, and practical guidance or coping strategies to begin supporting their mental and emotional wellness right away. The goal is for every client to feel heard, supported, and confident about the next steps in their healing journey.