About
Nick is an integrative embodiment coach and educator in private practice working in the realms of somatic (body based) practice, family systems and the impact of occupying outsider roles. He is a board member of The Focalizing Institute and received the bulk of his initial training over nearly a decade of mentorship from the institute’s founder and pioneering somatic psychologist, Dr. Michael Picucci.
Nick has been a featured coach and teacher by the Embodiment Conference, the Maha Rose Center for Healing, and the MyWellbeing network and leads workshops and retreats both domestically and abroad.
Approximately five years into his work with the Institute, a mixture of intuition and serendipity moved him to work with several world-renowned practitioners of Systemic Family Constellations including Suzi Tucker, Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld. Today, he has become a prominent voice for Family Constellations and the effects of generational trauma and is one of the most active FC facilitators in the Northeastern United States.
While working with clients privately, Nick has continued to follow in the footsteps of Dr. Picucci by teaching therapists, coaches and bodyworkers the power of Focalizing. To date, he has trained hundreds of Focalizing practitioners across 12+ countries on how to utilize their body as means to connect with their inner-knowing, address past wounds, and build inner resiliency.
How To Work With Nick
Nick offers 1:1 coaching sessions, retreats and trainings. For 1:1 work, contact him using this form to start a conversation. For retreats and trainings, visit the program page.
Nick's Guiding Principles
These are the principles that guide all of Nick's work:
Absolute Non-Judgment
Before labels, expectations and cultural conditioning, what is simply is. To witness without judgment creates space around internal barriers and opens up new possibilities. The state of non-judgment alluded to here can move mountains.
Work from Resource
Any mending process often includes a sense that you are finding your footing on new ground. To take that step and connect with the person you want to be requires a strong sense that it is safe to do so. To support this, Nick always cultivates the resources required to feel safe in your environment and in your body. The result is that what previously felt like a giant leap ends up being a smaller, more manageable step.
We Walk Together
Nick works with you as an equal. Every person brings with them a body of experience and knowledge that can support transformation. To walk together is to honor and include the gifts that you offer to this process.
Overwhelm is the Enemy
Nick works with gentleness and compassion. Overwhelming your mind or body in an attempt to 'conquer' or 'bust through' an internal barrier rarely leads to a lasting resolution. For this reason, gentleness is vital to the process.
Coaching, Not Therapy
Nick is an integrative coach with a variety of training and certifications (selected list below). As a coach, the tone and style of his work is goal oriented, practical and educational in nature. Nick teaches clients how to implement embodiment tools based in the latest research in the field of neuroscience. Taking into consideration each client’s specific challenges and needs, the eventual goal of every engagement is to empower the client to implement embodiment tools themselves; developing healthy habits of connecting with the body; and eventually taking these skills out into the world without the need for Nick’s guidance. Along these lines, typical coaching engagements with Nick are relatively short (2-3 months), with follow ups as needed.
Nick walks every client, workshop participant, and retreat attendee through the difference between coaching and therapy and the scope of his practice. For those who are in need of a therapist, he has a great referral network that he leans on often.
One more note about these distinctions: Nick does not offer coaching services to address every challenge he teaches about via social media. The best way to learn if Nick can help you is to start a conversation here.
Are you a therapist who would like to receive referrals from Nick? Contact him here and start a conversation. Nick is currently looking to add additional therapists to his referral network who specialize in EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and bodywork.
Selected Certifications
Certified Practitioner of Focalizing (CPF) | Trained by Dr. Michael Picucci of The Focalizing Institute
Nick is one of the leading practitioners of Focalizing and is an advisory board member for The Focalizing Institute. This work is a dynamic mind-body approach to personal and interpersonal growth. By listening to your nervous system and the body's innate intelligence, you uncover insight about where your challenges lie. Instead of parsing stories of the past, Nick teaches practices that promote resilience, embodied processing and helps folks develop new strategies to get unstuck. This work is a potent, neuroscience backed approach that’s mindful of the effects of trauma and helps people approach their goals in a unique manner. Read more about embodiment work and Focalizing by clicking here. This whole-person, embodied approach in combination with Family Constellations and genograming, are the hallmarks of Nick's practice and is what allows him to offer support for clients with a wide range of goals.
Certified Integrative Life Coach | Certified by The International Association of Counselors and Therapists (I.A.C.T)
Nick’s training and experience has made him a specialist in coaching the conscious and unconscious mind to enable profound change. By working with multiple dimensions of awareness, Nick helps clients engage in powerful processes that can rewrite the patterns that have been keeping them stuck. Instead of creating to-do lists or focusing on willpower, Nick’s work offers an organic method of transmuting the barriers that have kept clients from reaching their goals in the first place.
Certified Family Constellation Facilitator | Trained by Suzi Tucker of the Bert Hellinger Institute, US
Family & Systemic Constellations is an internationally renown approach that's only recently gained popularity in North America. At the center of this work is a deep and expansive answer to the question "who am I?" Family & Systemic Constellations helps you uncover how your present day obstacles are often generations in the making. For many, the exploration of how family and ancestry relate your present life can be astounding. Instead of focusing on the individual, this modality examines the root systems and how loyalty and guilt can influence our behavior. When you see how your relationship to the systems you belong to is contributing your present issues, a space opens up and you're given an extraordinary opportunity to create a new path. Using Family Constellations principles, Nick brings you through various coaching, mindfulness, and genograming practices that help you understand the larger picture and support your forward momentum.
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in Training (SEP)
Nick is currently finishing up his supervision as an SEP. Somatic Experiencing is an internationally recognized leading approach to understanding the neuroscience and effects of trauma. It is actively practiced worldwide and is currently being used by the VA (Veteran Affairs) in its support of soldiers returning from combat. This work is about how we can make meaningful steps towards our goals while honoring the complexities of how our trauma history can create a whole host of additional challenges that express themselves in our energy levels, our mood, our beliefs about our own potential and more. Trauma informed coaching with Somatic Experiencing means being mindful of the effects of trauma, building resilience and capacity in the body, and implementing powerful strategies that allow us to move forward without having to excavate and re-live the overwhelm that has has kept us frozen and stuck for so long.
Other Inspirations
Nick has also been inspired by his experiences of the work of the following facilitators and healers in the field:
Stephan Hausner, Mark Wolynn, Emily Blefeld and Dan Booth Cohen, Marine Sélénée, Ed Lynch, Bill Mannle, Francesca Mason Boring, Ursula Franke
Location
Nick works with clients across the globe via Zoom.
Nick also teaches Focalizing and leads group workshops and retreats internationally.
Sliding Scale / Scholarships
Nick offers assistance to individual clients and students in his courses that identify as black, indigenous or LGBTQIA+. If you identify as part of one of these groups, please reach out and mention that you’re interested in the sliding scale or the course scholarships.