About Nic
I’m Nic
I’m a lover of the outdoors, micro-roast coffee and epic stories.
It is an honor sit with people in the tough places and invite them to know Love, Hope, and Growth again, and I’d love to do so with you.
I hold a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, and I’ve been practicing as a licensed therapist since 2016.
I offer both in-person and online therapy services to clients in Minnesota and Washington
Experience and Expertise in
Shame/Self-worth
Healing Trauma
Crisis
Deconstruction and Questions of Faith
Grief Counseling
Couples Counseling (Gottman Level 1 Certified)
Sexual Issues (Unwanted Trained Facilitator)
Spiritual Issues
Narrative Approach
“The sad things that happened long ago will always remain part of who we are just as the glad and gracious things will too, but instead of being a burden of guilt, recrimination and regret that make us constantly stumble as we go, even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength for the journey that still lies ahead”
Frederick Buechner
My Approach
I believe that every ones of us bears a glory, beauty and strength. That sounds nice, but the reality is our stories are full of brokenness, pain, darkness, and shame – choking off the truth of who we really are.
My aim is to help you grow in understanding your story, the “mythos”, that has shaped you and how you see yourself, God and the world around you.
I believe that by inviting you to sit together in those moments of deep pain and darkness in your journey we can start to understand the true and deeper mythos of our lives - that we are loved and known by God.
Knowing our story and being known in our pains, failures and wounds helps us begin to heal and move into imagining new chapters - one of hope, love and life.
Practically, this means my approach to therapy involves a relational model with emphasis on the narrative of your life with its themes and patterns as well as the attachment style you learned from your childhood. Using this as a framework, I seek to help my clients grow in awareness of their internal world which I believe frees us up to live fully alive, able to connect with our emotions, our friends, family, and God in healthy and new ways.