Nicole is a Multicultural Womanist of Nigerian, Scottish, English, Cameroonian, Benin and Togo, Western Bantu, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch, and German descent. Nicole was born in the occupied Sauk nation area located along the Mississippi River currently known as Illinois and has made her home in occupied Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe land known as Colorado for more than 20 years.
Nicole is the owner of Compassionate Counseling of Denver. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she weaves ancestral healing and clinical psycho therapeutic modalities. Her focus on mental health and holistic healing practices offer a unique combination of education, mobilization, and liberation through creative expression, world travel, and music.
In addition to her private practice, she currently collaborates with Swallow Hill Music, blending music with social emotional curriculum for their Little Swallows Outreach Program. She is a contract clinician for Youth on Record, contract mental health provider for youth programming at Redline Contemporary Art Center, Ancestral Donation Clinic provider at Alchemy Ritual Goods, and contract clinician for students of color at University of Denver Strum School of Law. She is the daughter of an entrepreneur and watched her mother escape poverty by tirelessly building an empire starting from her kitchen Table. Outside of work, Nicole is an abstract visual artist, photographer, and percussionist. You can find her praying through dance anywhere there is music or water.
