Nicole Reich, LMFT, FT

Nicole Reich is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has worked in the field of grief and loss for over a decade.  Nicole is an AAMFT Approved Clinical Supervisor at the Center for Grief Care and Education, and is responsible for managing all aspects of the Counseling Internship Program.  Nicole oversees the recruitment, training, curriculum development, and supervision of graduate level and postgraduate psychotherapists.  Nicole also plays an integral role in promoting grief education and care by providing direct support to our local community.  Examples include leading our partnership with four local school districts to provide pro bono grief support to students and teachers in our county and also responding as a mental health partner with San Diego County to crises within San Diego.  Nicole provides direct counseling support to our community members and hospice families.  She is trained in EMDR and CISM.  

Serving as IPM faculty, Nicole teaches courses such as Legal/Ethical Concerns and the Delivery of Grief Care.  Nicole has also taught for local universities.  In addition to providing supervision to both individuals and groups of psychotherapists, Nicole has also served as a Supervisor Mentor for those LMFT supervisors in the community seeking Approved Clinical Supervisor status. 

Nicole completed her undergraduate studies at U.C. Riverside in Sociology and earned her MA in Psychology from Chapman University in Orange, CA.  She is also certified as a Fellow in Thanatology:  Death, Dying, and Bereavement, by the Association for Death Education and Counseling.  Prior to her experiences at SDHIPM, Nicole worked in a variety of mental health settings:  private practice, adolescent inpatient treatment for mental health and substance abuse, and social work at a residential facility for latency age children.