Nicole Rillo
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 10 years of experience providing compassionate care across clinics, hospitals, and diverse community setting in Los Angeles. Together, we will actively work side by side to identify your strengths, navigate challenges, and build practical strategies to help you reach your goals.
Strengths
I am an open minded, warm, and positive person. As your therapist, we will collaborate and work together to reach your goals. I offer Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Solution Focus therapy. Together, we can set goals, discuss challenges, identify barriers, look at motivation, and review progress.
Ideal clients
No ideal client. Everyone is unique. As your therapist, I will address what brought you to therapy and set therapeutic goals. Discuss presenting problems, symptoms, and concerns. Review life's adjustments, stressors, and stages. Identify patterns of thoughts, feelings/emotions, and behaviors and how it may have contributed to your current situation. Discuss past and present coping skills. Build, learn, and practice healthy coping skills. Assign homework/tasks and review completion. Develop a safety plan if needed. Identify natural support, community support, and community resources. Review weekly progress.
Origin story
After undergraduate school, I was a case worker. I was helping children and families on the surface by providing community resources. But I wanted to help them further by helping them identify challenges and barriers by helping them find solutions. This sparked my interest of attending Graduate School to become a Marriage and Family Therapist.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT is goal oriented and structured. It’s a in depth look at how your thoughts affects and plays a role with your emotions, and behaviors which involves talking therapy, practicing interventions, and completing homework.
Solution-Focused Brief Treatment
Solution Focused Brief Treatment is a goal oriented talking therapy that helps you identify your goals, learn coping skills, and assists you in creating future interventions within a short time frame.
Location
Virtual sessions