About Me
Nikole Layton, Licensed Therapist
I’m Nikole.
I thrive in 1:1 situations but sometimes I get a little lost in the crowd. If you’re familiar to Lompoc, you might spot me with my purple yeti mug, sipping on an iced oatmilk latte walking, leaving a local business, looking for pretty flowers.
My idea of a perfect Sunday is getting up early, to lay around leisurely reading in bed, cuddling with my dogs. I enjoy cooking breakfast (with fresh eggs from my chickens), then heading outside with an iced coffee for a day of gardening. I love to garden so much it's hard to choose between being outside with the flowers and helping women heal their invisible wounds.
I’ve had a frontseat, to how traditional mental health care and the socialization of women is hurting women and their loved ones. I get frustrated learning about the ways my clients have been shut down or disempowered by our modern healthcare system.
I was fortunate to enter the mental health field when I did, because we can actually use data and evidence to make sure therapy is effective. Rather than just let someone talk themselves into a tizzy each week, hoping they’ll just get over it.
I’ve had my own issues with anxiety, people pleasing, and shutting down. I have worked with my own healers and therapists to tend to my own invisible wounds. I’m not perfect and I’m striving to just be myself. I’m not interested in more achievements because doing more for other people hasn’t made my life better. And chances are its the same for you too.
My Professional Experience
I have been a licensed therapist since September 2021.
I am a LCSW in the state of California.
I graduated with my master’s from the School of Social Work, at USC, May 2018
I started my career in mental health in 2014
I am trained in EMDR and I have taken additional trainings in treating trauma related dissociation.
I started a private practice, Visible Healing, June 2022 to provide premium trauma therapy to the Lompoc community.