meet
nicole
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with what it means to be fully alive.
As a teen, that meant diving headfirst into art – sketching human forms and painting emotional landscapes that words couldn’t reach. In college, it meant studying psychology to feed my practical mind, then spending a year in a meditation ashram to explore mystery, presence, and the depths of human potential.
But nothing cracked me open like becoming a mother.
Parenting was the most profound portal into personal transformation I’d ever entered – more intense than psychology, and more humbling than meditation. I was flooded with fierce love and fear, and I became determined to heal the old wounds that distorted my ability to show up fully for my child.
That commitment led me to four years of intensive training in Hakomi Therapy (a mindfulness-based, somatic approach to trauma and attachment healing). I also studied the needs of adolescents, particularly those who are neurodivergent, misunderstood, and struggling in a world not built for them. And my greatest neurodiversity and parenting teacher turned out to be my very own son.
He is brilliant, creative, and profoundly PDA-Autistic. Parenting him meant stepping off the mainstream path and forging our own. It demanded intuition, humility, curiosity, and the courage to trust myself (and him) completely. Supporting his nervous system and honoring his way of being became not just my mission as a parent, but my calling as a coach.
Today, I help families, especially those raising neurospicy kids, reimagine what support can look like. I help parents step out of survival mode and into conscious leadership, rooted in connection, trust, and alignment. I guide teens to develop executive function skills that are built on self-knowledge, not shame.
And when words fall short, I paint.
During the early days of COVID, my world unraveled. I had recently been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. My son had been spiraling into panic attacks and despair. I was hollowed out by illness, grief, and anxiety. None of my personal care tools or knowledge could hold me together.
But my innate curiosity led me back to art.
I picked up a brush in the quiet of lockdown, and something shifted. As pigment met paper, I felt my frozen self begin to thaw. I remembered who I was. Not just a mother, not just a coach, but a creator. An alchemist. A weaver of paradox and beauty.
Through art, through executive function coaching, and through parent coaching, I now have the total joy and honor of helping people come home to their aliveness, freedom, and full potential.
A FEW TIDBITS about nicole
- She is a graduate of the Hakomi Method of Psychotherapy Comprehensive Training where she learned mindfulness and embodiment-based approaches to therapy.
- She has been a certified Anti-boring Approach Coach for 8+ years, one of Gretchen Wegner’s first trainees.
- She is a certified parenting coach through the Jai Institute.
- She has a certificate in Integrative Somatic Parts Work with The Embody Lab.
- She has an affinity for working with the LGBTQIA+ and alter-abled communities.
- She specializes in students with anxiety and executive functioning challenges and parents of neurospicy kids.
- She has one autistic, PDA teenager and one neurotypical kiddo.
- She lives in beautiful Portland, OR.
- She is an avid artist and lover of the creative process (follow her art journey here).
- She loves personal growth, “sweetweird” genre movies and books, cats, the outdoors, bouldering, strength training, board games with her family, and dyeing her hair strange colors.
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