Nicki McClusky
M.A., M.A., LPC, LCSW, CPC, BCC
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- Main Areas
- Life Coaching, Self Development, Voice Coachng, Spiritual Coaching, Psychotherapy
- Best Sellers
- Find Your Voice: An Introduction to Vocal Basics and the Voice of Your Soul, You Have A Self, Reach Higher I, II, III, The Joy Factor, Choose Acknowledgment, Not Criticism...Create Miracles, Not Shame
- Career Focus
- Life-Spirit-Voice Coach, Psychotherapist, Author
- Affiliation
- Find Your Voice, International Coach Academy, ILCT, eWome Network, MSCSW, APA
Nicki McClusky, LPC, LCSW, CPC, has a dual practice in Psychotherapy, Self Development Coaching and Voice Coaching in St. Louis, Missouri. She serves individuals and groups in private sessions and through a variety of workshops, individual sessions, and International Teleseminars. Nicki has been a therapist for 29 years, a teacher for 12, a life and spirit coach (self development) for 6 years, and has voice coached for 30. She assists her clients and patients to find and then speak from the voice of their souls. She particularly serves professional women who wish to change their voices from the inside-out.
Nicki is a published author in the fields of Psychotherapy, Life-Spirit-Voice Coaching, Self Development Coaching, and Spirituality---having written five books and multiple workshop booklets. She is an “expert author” at http://www.eZineArticles.com and http://www.SelfGrowth.com where many of her articles have been published. Nicki is also a professional photographer and singer. Her varied background and creative interests equip her to relate to and understand people from a wide-range of orientations throughout the world. Hundreds of individuals seeking awakening, healing, transformation, and joy find Nicki and benefit profoundly through the services she offers.
Earning a B.A. in Education, an M.A. in Music/Voice, and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology, Nicki is a gifted therapist, coach and (certified) teacher. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Nicki holds Level I Facilitator certification of the Sedona Method and has taught K-University level vocal music, including at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley.
Nicki became a Life Coach while studying with the Institute for Life Coach Training, is an active member of the International Coach Federation. She completed her Certified Professional Coach (CPC) certification through the International Coach Academy in September, 2009 and is currently completing a Master Class Series, Transformational Presence Coaching, for spiritually oriented coaches.
Nicki is a Fellow in the American Psychotherapy Association, and an active member (and past board member) and Mentoring Chair of the Missouri Society Clinical Social Work. Nicki is a Self-Psychologically oriented therapist, specializing in working with patients who had very difficult beginnings in life. She also works with anxiety, PTSD, depression, and adult children of alcoholics. Nicki works with couples as well as individuals.
As a coach, Nicki loves to work as an “Inner GPS coach”. Self development and voice coaching are also her specialty coaching niches. She enjoys giving workshops and teleseminars for Therapists, Coaches, and Health Care Professionals. Her coaching focuses on Mentoring new coaches to remove inner obstacles so they can soar in their careers. She serves professional women and men who wish to speak compellingly and authentically, and professional women who wish to change their voices from the inside-out. Nicki’s life mission: “I awaken and empower.”
Nicki and husband, John, enjoy their lives----their family, (Ben, Stacey, and little Evan and Madeline), extended family, friends, colleagues, and those they serve--- in St. Louis and around the world.
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Developing Your Self Can Be Hugely Fun!
I heard a workshop speaker tell a story about what he says to his new patients who come for therapy. He tells them: “It’s going to be painful and hard.” Well, if that isn’t a depressing prescription at the beginning of a journey that is designed to help someone grow, get to know themselves better and heal—I don’t know what is. I wanted to smack him. I wanted to say, “Hey…I’m older, wiser, more experienced, in the field than you, so how about let’s trade places for 10 minutes. Although I’m a therapist, we need some coaching “juice” and optimism here.”
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When Developing Your Self, Tackle One Thing at a Time Part I
Let’s go one more step into the territory of self development being “fun”: when you (1) want to reach a goal, (2) develop some particular aspect of your inner self, or (3) want to have a good time changing something you are eager to change, pick just one thing. Choose the one area or challenge that you’re most eager to address. Pick the juiciest one---the one you have the most energy on at the moment. If you tell yourself you “should” pick ____________, I encourage you not to pick that one. Choose with your heart and your sense of eage ess.
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