After exploring a wide range of Eastern and Western healing modalities, discovering the Innate Path model was what finally began to move the needle in Nicole’s own healing. She started to experience a level of freedom, clarity, sovereignty, and wellbeing she hadn’t previously thought possible. She now shares the Innate Path approach not only because the theory resonates, but because she has experienced its transformative effects from the inside out.

Nicole is known for her ability to create a deeply safe and sacred therapeutic space. Bringing authenticity, vulnerability, and a down-to-earth sense of humor into the room, her relational style helps clients feel at ease while engaging even the most difficult material.

Her work supports clients in accessing a nonjudgmental, accepting awareness within themselves that can be difficult to reach alone. With compassionate holding for past pain while gently working with the body to release stuck energy, rigid patterns of shame, self-criticism, and unconscious defenses begin to soften. In their place, self-compassion, curiosity, and embodied presence can naturally emerge—the ground from which healing naturally occurs.

The therapeutic relationship is central to this process. She believes relational wounds heal through new relational experiences in the present moment—through receiving the care, validation, and attunement that may have been missing earlier in life. While the Innate Path model anchors her work, she thoughtfully integrates elements from her broader training to meet each client’s unique needs, supporting healing across the interconnected realms of body, mind, and spirit.

Credentials, Training & Experience:

• Masters in Counseling Psychology from Naropa University 

• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)

• Over 15 years of experience working in the psychedelic field- in private practice since 2017

• Certified MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Therapist through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

• Therapist in the Phase 3 MDMA-assisted psychotherapy clinical trial for PTSD

• Trainer and group facilitator for psychedelic therapy training programs

• Certified Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider – Integrative Psychiatry Institute

• Level 1 AEDP Therapist (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy)

• Certified Acudetox Specialist (ear acupuncture protocol for nervous system regulation)

• Training in hands-on somatic trauma resolution – Somatic Training Institute and Pathways for Healing School

• Three-year professional training in core shamanism

• Ongoing long term study in an earth-centered indigenous shamanic lineage from Belize

• Training in parts work, attachment-focused therapy, Gestalt therapy, Chi Nei Tsang, yogic traditions, functional nutrition, folk herbalism, and Buddhist psychology

‍ ‍Interview with Voyage Denver