Licensed Professional Counselor
All PHC clinicians are highly trained and able to treat our clients that are experiencing anxiety, depression, life transitions and/or mood disorders. Please continue to explore our bios if you require a more specialized treatment plan.
Healing does not look the same for everyone. Nicole believes that each person’s mind is like a unique fingerprint, shaped by individual thoughts, feelings, experiences, and histories, and that therapy is a space where clients can tell their story in order to feel seen, heard, and supported.
Nicole works with adolescents and adults navigating PTSD, women’s issues, parenting and maternal mental health, anxiety, depression, and the emotional impact of cultural and systemic stressors. She has received specialized training in Latinx Mental Health and in the development and implementation of culturally responsive and adapted treatment approaches grounded in cultural humility.
Her therapeutic style is strength-based, process-oriented, empathic, and collaborative. Nicole is passionate about helping clients heal from past trauma and make meaning of distressing life events while supporting them in reclaiming agency and moving forward with intention. Clients often value her openness, warmth, and willingness to thoughtfully question traditional therapeutic frameworks when they do not fully serve the client’s needs.
Before becoming a clinician, Nicole spent over two decades as a professional dancer and arts educator, working locally and internationally. She developed and led arts-based education programs that used movement to support social-emotional learning, self-awareness, and mental wellness, particularly among youth in Chicago. This background continues to inform her clinical work, especially her attention to the mind–body connection and how trauma can be held and expressed through the body. While her work is primarily talk-based, Nicole integrates somatic awareness to help clients reconnect with their bodies and deepen insight, regulation, and healing.
Nicole holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, a teaching license in Early Childhood through Adolescence from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and a bachelor’s degree in Dance from Columbia College Chicago. She is also a certified yoga teacher.
Outside of the office, Nicole enjoys spending time with her husband, daughter, and rescue pup. She loves staying active, writing, improv comedy, hiking, and traveling.
