ROBINSON, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE

Nicholas White, LPC

  • Licensed Professional Counselor
  • MSCP · Chatham University
  • 7 Years Experience
  • Accepting New Clients

“I’ll meet you where you are, but we’ll work together to help you get where you want to be.”

Nicholas White is a Licensed Professional Counselor at CPA Counseling’s Robinson Township office, also seeing clients by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. He works with children, adolescents, young adults, adults, and families on anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, family difficulty, life transitions, school and workplace stress, self-esteem, and anger. His approach is warm, conversational, and collaborative.

No program commitments
Cigna · Aetna · BCBS · United Optum
Children, teens, adults & families
Telehealth available statewide
In practice 7 years

WHO NICK WORKS WITH

Who he’s for

Nick works with children, teens, young adults, adults, and families, individually and together. Seven years in practice, including residential work with more complex presentations.

1

Kids, teens, and young adults.

The age range he is drawn to and has the most experience with. Anxiety, school, friendships, figuring out who you are. He treats what a young person brings as the actual subject rather than a phase to be managed.

2

Families working on it together.

When one person’s difficulty has rearranged the whole house, or when the pattern between people is the thing that needs to change. Nick works from a family systems view alongside individual sessions.

3

Men, and anyone chasing a goal.

Nick is one of the few male therapists in the practice, which matters to some clients. His own background in sports shapes how he thinks about setbacks, persistence, and the unglamorous work between deciding something and getting there.

why work with Nick

You know yourself better than anyone

Nick starts from a straightforward premise: you are the expert on your own life. His job is not to tell you what it means — it is to ask better questions than the ones you have been asking yourself, and to stay in it with you while you answer them.

What brings people in

A kid who stopped talking. Anxiety that has started costing school or work. A house where everyone is managing around something nobody has named. A goal you keep not reaching and cannot work out why.

What sessions are like

Conversational, by design. Nick builds rapport first because nothing useful happens without it, particularly with teenagers who have been sent rather than come. From there it is collaborative — exploring what is happening, naming the strengths already in play, and working out what you want to be different.

What gets different

Confidence that is earned rather than assigned. Coping skills that hold up outside the room. Relationships that run on something other than avoidance. And a clearer read on what was actually in the way.

HOW NICK WORKS

Seven approaches, chosen for you

Nick is trained across a range of approaches and selects based on who is in front of him. What works with a sixteen-year-old is rarely what works with their parent.

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Family Systems
  • Solution-Focused Therapy
  • Person-Centered Therapy
  • Psychodynamic
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Strengths-based therapy

1

When the thinking is the problem

Anxiety, low mood, the commentary that will not quiet down. Cognitive-behavioral work on the pattern as it runs, with tools you can use when he is not in the room. Held inside a strengths-based frame, so it is about clearing what is in the way rather than listing what is wrong with you.

2

When it runs through the house

A family systems view: what one person is carrying usually moves through everyone else, and the responses they produce become the pattern. Nick looks at the sequence rather than the person at the end of it — which is also why individual work with a young person often improves with a parent session alongside it.

3

When you know what you want and cannot get there

Motivational interviewing and solution-focused work for the gap between intention and action — working through ambivalence on your own terms, clarifying what you actually want, and building steps that are small enough to take. Psychodynamic work where the thing in the way turns out to be older than the situation.

CONDITIONS TREATED

What Nick treats – who Nick sees

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Trauma
  • ADHD
  • Family Issues
  • Life Transitions
  • Men’s Mental Health
  • School / Academic
  • Workplace Stress
  • Self-Esteem
  • Anger Management
  • Adults
  • Teens & Adolescents
  • Young Adults
  • Families
  • Individuals
  • Women
  • Men
  • Seniors
  • College Students

For young people

Children and adolescents — where most of his experience sits

Seven years working with children, teens, and young adults, including residential work with more complex presentations. Nick builds rapport before anything else, which is usually what decides whether a young person engages at all.

“You don’t have to have everything figured out when you walk through the door.”

CARE PHILOSOPHY

Collaborative. And it needs you in it.

Therapy starts with connection, in Nick’s view, and everything useful comes after that. The room is warm and conversational on purpose — not because comfort is the goal, but because people do not say the real thing to someone they are still assessing.

From there it is genuinely collaborative, which cuts both ways. He will listen, ask questions, and help you work toward change. He is also direct that growth starts with your willingness to participate: your voice and your effort are part of the method, not a bonus.

His own background in sports shapes how he thinks about this — setbacks are part of the process rather than evidence against it, and the work between deciding something and reaching it is where most of it actually happens.

ABOUT NICK

Therapy starts with connection

Nicholas White is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a warm, conversational, and collaborative approach to therapy. He puts weight on building rapport and creating a space where clients feel comfortable being themselves, working from the belief that you know yourself better than anyone — his role is to help you explore your experience, recognize your strengths, and work through what brought you in.

He holds an MS in Counseling Psychology from Chatham University and has seven years of experience with children, adolescents, and young adults, as well as with individuals navigating more complex mental health challenges in a residential setting. That range has left him with a clear view that everyone’s experiences, needs, and routes toward growth are different.

He also brings a personal background in sports and athletics, which has shaped how he thinks about perseverance, setbacks, and the work that goes into reaching a goal.

Therapy, ultimately, is a collaborative process. Nick is there to listen, support, ask questions, and help you move toward meaningful change — and he is direct that your voice and participation matter. You do not have to have everything figured out when you walk through the door.

CREDENTIALS & TRAINING

DEGREE

MSCP · Counseling Psychology

Chatham University

CERTIFICATIONS

LPC · Licensed Professional Counselor

ALSO TRAINED

Family Systems · Psychodynamic · Motivational Interviewing · Solution-Focused

FOCUS

Children & Adolescents · Families · Men’s Mental Health

IN PRACTICE

7 years

Robinson Township · Telehealth

IN NETWORK

Cigna · Aetna · BCBS · United Optum

Accepting new clients

7

Years in Practice

Robinson & Telehealth

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Children Through Adults

Schools, homes and residential care

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Personalized Care Plans

No program commitments required

CONDITION GUIDE

Therapy guides from Nicholas White

  • Patient Zero

    Mental Health

    What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Parasocial Connection

    Why millions feel they truly know someone they’ve never met — the psychology of parasocial connection, when it’s comforting, and when it’s telling you something.

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    Anxiety

    When Anxiety Starts Making the Rules

    Anxiety rarely announces itself as anxiety — it arrives as good judgment, feeling like being careful, responsible, or thinking ahead, and by the time you notice, it may have been making your decisions for years. OCD is mostly internal: intrusive thoughts, mental checking, rumination, reassurance-seeking. Both respond well to treatment.

  • Accessibility

    Information

    CPA Counseling Accessibility Statement

    Our commitment to an accessible website — WCAG 2.1 AA, keyboard operability, high contrast — and a direct contact if you encounter any barrier.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions about working with Nicholas White

What new clients ask most often before their first session.

Nick is a Licensed Professional Counselor who works with children, adolescents, young adults, adults, and families on anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, family difficulty, life transitions, school and workplace stress, self-esteem, and anger management. He draws on CBT, family systems, solution-focused, person-centered, psychodynamic, and motivational interviewing approaches.

Yes — it is where most of his experience sits. Seven years with children, adolescents, and young adults, including residential work with more complex presentations. He also sees families together when the pattern between people is part of what needs to change, and often pairs individual work with a young person alongside separate parent sessions.

Common, and not a dealbreaker. Nick builds rapport before anything else, which matters most with a teenager who was sent rather than came. He will not push, and he is straightforward with young people about what therapy is and is not. Plenty of reluctant teenagers agree to one session to see what it is like, and most come back.

Yes. Nick is currently accepting new clients at the Robinson Township office and through telehealth across Pennsylvania. He is in network with Cigna, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield and United Optum. Request an appointment online or call 412-439-1416.