Types of Clients
Children, Adolescents, Familes, Adults, and Couples
Treatment Specialties
Nicole specializes in treating a variety of emotional, social, and behavioral issues. Trauma issues include substance abuse and dependence, sexual abuse, sexual issues with adults, sexual addictions, anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, dissociation, shame, grief, complex trauma, elderly mental health and concerns related to elder care, and difficulties related to attachment wounds and relational traumas.
Training and Experience
Nicole graduated from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 2012 with a Master's in Social Work and an emphasis in Mental Health. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in 2010. Nicole is extensively trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for both adolescents and adults. She is also additionally trained in substance abuse and dependencies, has training in specific trauma therapies such as Cognitive Processing Therapy and EMDR, and grief rituals and practices.
Techniques
Nicole's approach to therapy is client centered, holistic, and collaborative; working with the client to achieve their goals. Nicole understands the complexity of the human experience that lends itself to varying needs during different seasons of life. Nicole believes in the inherent wisdom and strength that each person has and works towards uncovering and rediscovering this with clients through somatic, relational, and cognitive frameworks. Nicole appreciates the importance of understanding systems and how the whole influences the individual on both a micro and macro scale. Subsequently, Nicole does not view mental health from a symptoms based perspective but rather through a holistic lens that supports deeper insights that can remain unconscious if not brought to the surface through insight fostering therapeutic techniques. Nicole also operates from the perspective that while there are no "quick fixes" to mental health, it is important for both the client and clinician to understand the presenting issues and the plan for therapy so there is trust and transparency in the therapeutic process. Models of therapy most include Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, Somatic therapies, Trauma Informed therapy, psycho education, Mentalization, Attachment focused therapy, Psychodynamic, and Internal Family Systems.