About Us
Meet Nikki
Nikki is a Licensed Professional Counselor and an EMDR International Association Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant. Her expertise is in trauma and nervous system dysregulation, and working with clients that have been impacted by traumatic events across the lifespan. Nikki is experienced and skilled in providing therapy for multiple types of traumatic experiences, including infidelity and betrayal trauma, as well as dissociative disorders. She also has experience working with those that have experienced fertility issues and peri and post natal mental health challenges.
Her experience in the field ranges from providing crisis response and victim accompaniment during the initial presentation phase and through the reporting and law enforcement interview process in a hospital based sexual assault response unit, to being a co-located partner in a family justice center working with interpersonal violence victims and victims of violent crime. In addition to running her private practice, Nikki works with law enforcement and district attorneys’ offices regarding the neurobiology of trauma and victim focused best practices as well as assisting on high risk/high lethality assessments and victimology assessments to provide advocacy in the court system.
Nikki earned her Master of Science Degree in Community Psychology from Alverno College and a graduate certificate in Trauma Informed Care from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She holds a graduate certificate and a Master of Arts in Forensic Criminology & Criminal Justice from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Nikki is certified in Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) through UMBC, serves as a Field Traumatologist with the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology, and is certified in Crisis Intervention through the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.
Nikki is a volunteer with Copline, the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Project, and Therapy Aid Coalition, and previously served as the Ethics and Professional Development Chair of the Wisconsin Counseling Association. She is also an adjunct professor at Carroll University teaching psychology classes in the Associates of Nursing Program.