SOUTH HILLS, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE

Nicole Duley, LPC

  • Licensed Professional Counselor
  • Addiction Treatment
  • MS · California University of Pennsylvania
  • Accepting New Clients

“Courage can look like showing up as you are.”

Nicole Duley is a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in addiction treatment at CPA Counseling’s South Hills office, also seeing clients by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. She works with teens, young adults, and adults on addiction, anxiety, depression, trauma, codependency, workplace stress, and self-esteem, using evidence-based approaches to build practical skills for recovery and resilience.

No program commitments
UPMC · Highmark · BCBS · Aetna · Cigna · UHC
Teens, young adults & adults
Telehealth available statewide
In practice 8 years

WHO NICOLE WORKS WITH

Who she’s for

Nicole works with teens, young adults, and adults, individually. Eight years in practice with addiction as the stated specialty and the things that tend to travel with it.

1

People in or heading toward recovery.

Addiction treatment is what Nicole specializes in — not as one item on a list, but as the organizing focus of her practice. Substance use and the anxiety or depression that is usually underneath it, treated together rather than in sequence.

2

People who want practical skills.

Her work is explicitly evidence-based and skills-oriented: emotional regulation, coping that holds under pressure, and resilience you can demonstrate rather than hope for. Insight on its own has not been enough for most people who arrive here.

3

People in the middle of a change.

A major life transition, a relationship that ended, a role that stopped fitting. Nicole works with the stretch where you are no longer where you were and not yet anywhere else.

why work with Nicole

Showing up is the first thing

Nicole’s view is that courage can look like showing up as you are — which is a low bar deliberately. Most people in addiction work have spent a long time presenting a managed version of themselves. Arriving without that is the actual first move.

What brings people in

Drinking or using that stopped being a choice somewhere back there. Anxiety underneath it that has never been treated. A relationship where you have disappeared into managing someone else. A transition that knocked out whatever was holding things steady.

How she actually works

Collaborative and grounded in evidence-based practice. Nicole helps you make sense of what has been hard, then builds the practical skills — recovery, emotional regulation, long-term resilience — in a space that stays non-judgmental about where in the process you actually are.

What gets different

Coping that works on a bad Tuesday rather than only in theory. Emotional regulation you can feel rather than describe. And the thing underneath the using gets addressed instead of waiting.

HOW NICOLE WORKS

Eight approaches, chosen for you

Evidence-based by design. Nicole selects from a range of established approaches based on what is driving the presenting problem rather than running one method on everyone.

  • CBT
  • TF-CBT
  • IFS
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Solution-Focused
  • Person-Centered
  • Mindfulness
  • Strengths-Based

1

When something has a hold on you

Motivational interviewing is central to Nicole’s addiction work — moving through ambivalence on your own terms rather than being argued into anything. Paired with CBT for the loop itself: what fires it, what it is solving, and what has to fill the space.

2

When something happened first

Trauma-Focused CBT and Internal Family Systems for what sits underneath. Substance use is very often a solution to something older, and removing the solution while leaving the problem intact is why the ninth day is harder than the first.

3

When you need it to hold up outside

Mindfulness and solution-focused work for emotional regulation and the practical end of it. Nicole is explicit that the goal is skills — things you can use when the craving arrives at eleven at night and nobody is available.

CONDITIONS TREATED

What Nicole treats – who Nicole sees

  • Addiction
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Trauma
  • Codependency
  • Life Transitions
  • Workplace Stress
  • Self-Esteem
  • Adults
  • Teens & Adolescents
  • Young Adults
  • Individuals
  • Women
  • Men
  • College Students

For addiction

Addiction treatment — her stated specialty

Substance use is the organizing focus of Nicole’s practice rather than one item on a list. Motivational interviewing, CBT for the loop, and trauma work for whatever the using was solving — treated together, because treating one and waiting on the other is why people relapse.

“Courage can look like showing up as you are.”

CARE PHILOSOPHY

Non-judgmental. And genuinely practical.

Nicole’s work emphasizes creating a safe, non-judgmental space where you can make sense of what has been hard and try out new ways of moving forward. In addiction work especially, judgment is not a side issue — it is the reason most people wait years before they say anything.

From there it is practical. The approach is collaborative and grounded in evidence-based practice, with the aim of building skills you can actually use: recovery, emotional regulation, and resilience that holds up over time rather than only while you are in the room.

What she asks is the thing her own words name as courage — showing up as you are, rather than as the managed version. That is usually the hardest part and it is also the part that makes everything after it possible.

ABOUT NICOLE

Making sense of it, then building from there

Nicole Duley is a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in addiction treatment and support for adults facing anxiety, depression, and life transitions.

Her approach is collaborative and grounded in evidence-based practice, helping clients build practical skills for recovery, emotional regulation, and long-term resilience. Her work emphasizes creating a safe, non-judgmental space where clients can make sense of what has been hard and try out new ways of moving forward.

She works with teens, young adults, and adults on addiction, anxiety, depression, trauma, codependency, workplace stress, and self-esteem, drawing on CBT, trauma-focused CBT, Internal Family Systems, motivational interviewing, solution-focused, mindfulness, and strengths-based approaches.

Nicole holds an MS from California University of Pennsylvania and sees clients at the South Hills office and by telehealth across Pennsylvania, serving McMurray, Washington, Canonsburg, and the surrounding area.

CREDENTIALS & TRAINING

DEGREE

MS · Counseling

California University of Pennsylvania

CERTIFICATIONS

LPC · Licensed Professional Counselor

ALSO TRAINED

Motivational Interviewing · TF-CBT · Internal Family Systems

FOCUS

Addiction Treatment · Anxiety & Depression · Life Transitions

IN PRACTICE

8 years

South Hills · Telehealth

IN NETWORK

South Hills

via Telehealth – Pennsylvania

8

Years in Practice

South Hills & Telehealth

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Addiction & Recovery

Her stated specialism

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Personalized Care Plans

No program commitments required

CONDITION GUIDE

Therapy guides from Nicole Duley

  • 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 Nicole Duley

What new clients ask most often before their first session.

Nicole is a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in addiction treatment. She works with teens, young adults, and adults on addiction, anxiety, depression, trauma, codependency, workplace stress, self-esteem, and major life transitions, drawing on CBT, trauma-focused CBT, Internal Family Systems, motivational interviewing, solution-focused, mindfulness, and strengths-based approaches.

No. Plenty of people come in still using, still unsure whether this is a problem, or still negotiating with themselves about it. That is a normal place to begin and Nicole works from exactly there — motivational interviewing is built for ambivalence rather than requiring you to resolve it first. If a higher level of care is needed, she will say so plainly and help you find it.

It means the approaches used have research behind them for the specific problem, rather than being chosen by preference. In practice that is motivational interviewing for ambivalence, CBT for the loop, trauma-focused work for what sits underneath, and mindfulness for regulation. The point is not the labels — it is that you leave with skills that hold up outside the room.

Yes. Nicole is accepting new clients at the South Hills office and through telehealth across Pennsylvania. She is in network with UPMC, Highmark, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare. Request an appointment online or call 412-439-1416.