Nicole Acosta is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist (CA#: 107276) who focuses in empowering individuals. Her specialties consist of working with children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety, depressive, and trauma-related disorders. Together, both client and therapist collaborate with goal setting to alleviate crisis, unwanted past hurt, or challenging stressors. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Health Education with a concentration in Community Based Public Health from San Francisco State University and obtained her Master’s of Science Counseling degree, in Marriage Family Child Therapy from the University of Phoenix.
Her clinical work has been applied in a both inpatient and outpatient settings with non-profit organizations that have partnered with Alameda County Social Services Agency serving children, youth and families within the departments of the juvenile justice system, foster-care system, to local clinics, and hospital settings such as John Muir Hospital that served patients with psychiatric or behavioral problems.
After working in several underserved populations, her passion for social justice, led her to other areas of interest including trauma, multigenerational families, multicultural/acculturation and understanding relational attachment styles. Nicole and the individual explore client’s own understanding of the specific relational-stressors, including repetitive behavioral patterns and ongoing challenges that exist in the conflicted relationship.
Nicole has an interactive strength-based therapeutic approach and practices relational psychotherapy by assisting individuals to conceptualize their own attachment style, gain insight, and discover other opportunities to experience a satisfying quality of life.
Contact Nicole Acosta, M.S., LMFT
Phone: 510.470.4093
Email: nicole@journeyoflifecounseling.com
Specialties:
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Issues and Consultation
- Trauma
- Adjustment Disorder
- Impulse Control Disorder
- Mood Disorder
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Domestic Violence
- Family Conflict
- Parenting/ Attachments
- Peer Relationships
- Relationship Issues/Concerns/ Attachments
- Multigenerational Families
- Multicultural/ Acculturation
- Identity Development