About Nicole

The Bio

I grew up in Queens, New York. If you’ve spent any time with a New Yorker, you already know what that means: I’m direct, I don’t sugarcoat things, and I have a pretty good sense of humor about all of it. I’ll challenge you. I’ll celebrate you. I’ll hold you accountable to the person you told me you wanted to become. And I’ll do all of that in a way that doesn’t make you want to run out of the room.

But before I was a therapist, I was a lot of other things. I ran an aerial arts training facility and managed a performance company — which meant swinging from ceilings and figuring out how to keep creative, passionate, slightly chaotic humans pointed in the same direction. (Useful skills, as it turns out, for the therapy room.) I toured the country. I lived in London. I lived in Sydney, Australia. I followed a calling into ministry. I chased love to Phoenix, which didn’t work out the way I expected — but I stayed, and I built the blended family of my dreams here.

I discovered my passion for social work while living abroad, and the moment I got back to the States I went straight into my master’s program. I never looked back. I identify as neuroqueer, I’ve walked my own road through religious trauma and faith deconstruction, and I’ve navigated chronic illness with my love of life fully intact. I bring all of it into the room. I think that matters.