meet
nicole
I’m 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 yogic discipline.
But nothing cracked me open like becoming a mother.
Parenting was the most profound portal into personal transformation I’d ever entered – more informative than psychology, and more humbling than meditation. I was flooded with both 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 three years of intensive training in Hakomi Therapy (a mindfulness-based, somatic approach to psychotherapy). 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 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 evolved from a parenting mission to one of 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 in developing executive function skills built on self-knowledge, not shame.
And now my role is expanding.
I’m working toward my master’s in counseling to begin accepting insurance for counseling teens and adults in Oregon. My expected graduation date is March 2028, and I look forward to the opportunity to make my work more accessible.
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 master parenting coach through the Jai Institute (completing over 1.5 years of training).
- She is currently pursuing her Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree at the University of the Cumberlands.
- 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, backpacking, bouldering, strength training, board games with her family, and cats. All the cats.
In the words of past clients...
