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Professional Background
Nicole received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Vermont. She then went on to acquire specialized training at Vanderbilt University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. She is licensed as a psychologist in the state of California (#PSY22280). When she is not facilitating experiential workshops or immersed in one-on-one sessions with private practice clients, Nicole can be found teaching mindful movement and meditation to individuals struggling with treatment-resistant depression at UCSF. In addition to her academic preparations, Nicole views her ongoing work as a student of Vipassana (meaning, "insight into the true nature of things") meditation as essential to her role as a psychologist. Guided by the multidimensional layers of communication that emerge moment-to-moment in her work with clients, Nicole attends carefully for glimmers of the soul beckoning a person toward individuation. Individuation-- a lifelong journey toward integration, differentiation, and one's True Self-- is needed now more than ever, as we are living in an epoch marked by exponentially increasing global calamities and an unsustainable industrialized human culture.
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Nicole is keenly interested in the unconscious impact of the widening alienation between humankind and its own wild nature on the entire global community in this momentous age of technological advancement. Her work is heavily influenced by the theories of Carl Jung and other depth psychologists, as well as wisdom acquired firsthand while traversing her own "journey to reconnect." This path summoned her everywhere from vision fasting in the desert with the