Nina Escobar-Petersen, LCSW
Licensed in Missouri · 15 years in practice
Nina Escobar-Petersen helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes.
License and registration
- LCSW, Missouri
- 2014008259 · expires September 2027
- NPI
- 1093030389 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
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About Nina
Nina Escobar-Petersen helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that fit each person's daily life. Nina is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and she brings 15 years of experience to sessions in Missouri.
She uses approaches that center relationships and personal strengths. In sessions she listens closely, helps identify patterns that cause pain, and works with clients to try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
She often combines short-term skills with deeper work on attachment and trauma when it’s needed. Many people come with worries about mood, self-esteem, or identity. Nina supports those facing depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, or trauma and abuse.
She also helps people navigate relationship strain, parenting stress, career transitions, and issues linked to family of origin. Nina offers a calm, direct style that balances practical tools and emotional processing. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts, and on attachment-based work to repair trust and connection.
For people who have been through trauma, she can include eye movement desensitization and reprocessing as part of treatment. Her practice is attentive to LGBTQ needs and to people dealing with compassion fatigue, abandonment, body image, dissociation, and communication problems. Sessions aim to strengthen coping, clarify goals, and help clients take steps they can sustain at home and work.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Nina lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Nina names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape feelings and expectations. In online sessions this looks like noticing patterns in close relationships, naming unmet needs, and practicing new ways of asking for safety and support. Client-centered therapy centers the client's experience and pace; the therapist reflects what the client says and helps them find their own solutions, which can help with self-esteem and identity questions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify thought patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood and teaches concrete strategies to change them, such as behavior experiments or reframing unhelpful beliefs.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to focus on skill-building, attachment work, trauma processing, or a mix of these methods to match the client's needs.
Online sessions can be organized as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different rhythms of life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when a written conversation feels easier. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, parenting, and other responsibilities.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, career changes, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and identity questions including LGBT and gender dysphoria.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is compassionate and practical. She blends listening and emotional processing with concrete skills drawn from approaches like CBT and DBT.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience working with people across a range of mental health and life concerns.
What credentials and location are listed for the therapist?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Missouri.
Can sessions be held in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
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