Nicole Nicotera

Professor Nicole Nicotera, PhD, LICSW, RYT-200 earned her MSW and PhD at the University of Washington, Seattle. She has a long history of clinical social work practice with children, youth and families, and with using creative arts and experiential therapies in the process of facilitating healing. She teaches courses in mind-body social work practice and in program evaluation. She is the course lead for: clinical social work skills; mind-body connections in social work practice; experiential therapy and experiential therapy in nature. She is committed to promoting the health and wellness of practicing social workers and social work educators. Nicotera is a certified mindfulness teacher and a registered yoga teacher.

Nicotera's research and scholarship focus on:
•promoting health and well-being across the life span
•mind-body practices to promote well-being and recovery from trauma
•mind-body practices as pathways to well-being
•interventions to enhance the health and wellbeing of social work practitioners, educators, and other helping professionals
•issues of unearned privilege and oppression in social work practice, education, and research

Nicotera is a community engaged scholar and collaborates with numerous community partners. She has expertise in conducting and publishing quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research.

In addition to her role as PI on research grants and related publications, she mentors and supervises MSW and PhD students in mixed methods and qualitative data collection, analysis, interpretation, peer-reviewed conference presentations and publications. She also supervises doctoral students in mixed methods dissertations and independent studies to support their preparation of mixed methods dissertation proposals.