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Guidance, clarity, and support tailored for those in high-responsibility roles
One size does not fit all.
At Return to Baseline, services are tailored to your unique needs. Sometimes formal therapy is ideal—sometimes a listening ear, focused feedback, or problem-solving discussion is all that’s needed to move forward.
Your care is personalized, practical, and results-driven, ensuring that every session meets the demands of your life, career, and responsibilities.
Nikki uses a blended, evidence-based approach, selecting techniques that fit each client’s goals and circumstances.
Methods may include:
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Explore the stories you tell about your life and identity to gain insight, perspective, and clarity.
Possible Benefits: Increased self-understanding, reframing challenges, and discovering new ways to approach decisions and relationships. -
Understand how thoughts, behaviors, and emotions interact, and develop practical strategies for navigating stress and challenges.
Possible Benefits: Reduced anxiety and depression, a better understanding of habits, skills to combat distorted thinking, improved problem-solving, clearer decision-making, and enhanced emotional regulation. -
Problem-Solving Training (Nikki’s favorite, read her blog article here): https://www.returntobaselinellc.com/blog/ditch-the-why-bother-mindset-how-to-beat-brain-overload-and-take-action
Build tools and strategies for managing the impact of high-pressure environments and daily responsibilities. This approach helps you work through “brain overload,” understand your personal approach to stress, change, and adversity, and encourages mental agility—so you feel less overwhelmed and more in control.
Possible Benefits: Greater efficiency, improved confidence in decision-making, enhanced mental clarity, and actionable solutions for ongoing challenges.
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Address trauma and “stuck points,” helping you process experiences and regain emotional control.
Possible Benefits: Reduced trauma-related distress, improved coping skills, and increased resilience. -
Focus on organization, routines, coping, and emotional regulation to improve daily functioning and reduce tension.
Possible Benefits: Enhanced focus, better time management, and increased ability to handle stress without burnout. -
Foster psychological flexibility and align your actions with your values, even in the face of stress or challenge.
Possible Benefits: Greater alignment with personal values, increased adaptability, and improved long-term wellbeing. -
Walk and talk therapy is an outdoor counseling approach that combines gentle movement with conversation. Humans were meant to move and connect outdoors, and being in nature supports grounding and focus. This setting helps clients notice stress held in the body, calm the nervous system, and practice relaxation and regulation—making it especially helpful for burnout, chronic stress, and mental fatigue.
Possible Benefits: Burnout recovery support, reduced chronic stress and tension, improved nervous system regulation, increased somatic (body-based) awareness, enhanced relaxation, better focus and mood, and a stronger mind-body connection.
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Nikki incorporates elements of the widely recognized framework The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People into her problem-solving and leadership-oriented work. While not therapy in itself, these principles complement evidence-based strategies by helping clients develop clarity, intentional action, and sustainable personal and professional habits.
This framework is especially relevant for high-responsibility professionals—military members, first responders, healthcare providers, leaders, and educators—who navigate complex, high-pressure environments and want actionable tools for resilience and effectiveness.
Possible Benefits:
Improved prioritization and time management
Greater strategic thinking and decision-making confidence
Enhanced self-awareness and adaptability under stress
Actionable habits for sustained personal and professional growth
Clients interested in exploring these principles further can learn more about The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People here.