Removing obstacles and making meaningful shifts can be hard to do alone; this is where therapy can be transformative. Whether you’d like help making changes, dealing with life transitions, engaging in self-exploration, working through difficult relationships, sexual issues, uncomfortable moods, past and ongoing trauma, or just developing a better sense of peace, balance and integration, psychotherapy can offer the space and relationship to help you grow.
About Nicole
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker working with individuals, using a collaborative, integrative, and customized approach. I pull from and combine various modalities, particularly psychodynamic therapy, CBT, EMDR, mindfulness, body-centered approaches)
I received my training at New York University in psychodynamic therapy and have been extensively trained in several evidence-based therapeutic approaches and protocols. My use of these techniques is eclectic: I pull from specific therapeutic approaches and modalities depending on what makes sense for you and how you would like to work.
My areas of interest and training are focused on working with relationships, trauma (complex, single incident or the trauma of everyday life), mood disorders (anxiety and depression), performance enhancement (executives and creatives), sex therapy, and the integration of mind and body.
To view a comprehensive list of my specialties and the issue areas that I work with, click below.
As long as we keep secrets and suppress information, we are fundamentally at war with ourselves…The critical issue is allowing ourselves to know what we know. That takes and enormous amount of courage.
BESSEL A VANDER POLK
training & credentials
Areas of Interest and Specializations
Trauma
Trauma of everyday life
Sexuality—sex positivity—exploration—body image—dating coaching
Mind body integration—trauma, stress, chronic illness, performance
Complex trauma—relationships-interpersonal, romantic, familia
Executive coaching—performance psychology
Mood and anxiety disorders—depression, anxiety, OCD
Education
Master of Social Work, New York University, Silver School of Social Work
Bachelor of Arts, Kenyon College
Affiliations
National Association of Social Workers
The Parnell Institute for EMDR
Training and Certification
David Plotkin Phd and Associates
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Associate for anxiety and mood disorders, 2016-present
Exposure and Response Prevention Work
AASECT Training:
Working towards accreditation at the Center for healthy Sex certificate Center for Healthy Sex,
The Parnell Institute for EMDR :
EMDR refresher
EMDR levels, I, 2,3
The Trauma Resource Institute
Certificate in the Trauma Resiliency Model
Certificate in the Community Resiliency Model
Southern California Counseling Center
Comprehensive three year certificate program
SCCC family systems training program
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital
Social Work intern—psychotherapy families, children, and adolescents—outpatient psychiatry
Kings County Hospital Center
Social Work intern inpatient/outpatient psychiatry