I’m not the kind of therapist who stays quiet behind a clipboard. When you sit with me, you’re not sitting across from a blank slate.
You’re sitting with someone who listens deeply, asks intentional questions, and isn’t afraid to hold space for the hard things. I’m Nicole Garland, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, trauma-informed practitioner, coach, and space holder. I built Amplify Mind Body for people like us: the over-functioners, the silent strugglers, the ones who keep going even when something inside is calling for a pause.
I believe healing shouldn’t feel like performance. It should feel like presence.
You don’t need to collapse to justify your care.
You don’t have to be in crisis to be supported.
You just need a safe place to land and someone who gets it.
This space exists to hold the parts of you that are tired of holding everyone else.
The Work We Do Together
This work isn’t surface-level. It’s not about chasing symptoms or rushing toward transformation. It’s about creating safety in the body, clarity in the mind, and space to show up without performance.
Whether we’re working in a therapeutic relationship or a coaching container, my approach is always trauma-informed, collaborative, and rooted in respect for your pace. Therapy is a clinical space for healing trauma, processing pain, and navigating emotional stuckness. Coaching is future-focused; it’s about alignment, nervous system-informed growth, and expanding your capacity to live and lead from a grounded place.
Across both spaces, neurobiology deeply informs my practice. We honor how your nervous system has adapted and explore how to reshape patterns in a way that feels safe, embodied, and sustainable. I use evidence-informed tools like EMDR, somatic parts work, cognitive behavioral therapy, breathwork, and movement-based practices. But more than anything, I bring an attuned presence, one that sees past the polished mask and helps you connect to what’s real underneath.
This is work for people who are tired of holding it together. It’s for those who are done performing wellness and are ready to start feeling whole, layer by layer, breath by breath. You don’t have to be ready for everything. You just have to be ready to begin, and I’ll meet you right there.
There were seasons in my life when I was present for everything, work, family, survival, but not myself. I knew how to hold space for others, juggle responsibilities, and push through. What I didn’t know how to do was pause. Or be held. Or feel without bracing.
What I needed wasn’t more motivation. I needed room to fall apart without judgment, to feel without rushing, to rebuild without shame. I don’t do this work because I have all the answers. I do it because I’ve lived inside the questions. I know the quiet ache of holding too much. I know the exhaustion of high-functioning survival. And I know how transformational it is to finally have a space where you don’t have to perform strength in order to be supported.
That’s the energy I bring into every session. Not perfection. Not performance. Presence, partnership, and deep listening. Because healing doesn’t always start with action. Sometimes, it starts with being witnessed.
“You can be the strong one and still deserve softness.”
“I built this because I needed something like it when I was falling apart in private.”
You don’t have to fall apart to deserve support
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From Systems to Soul Work
I spent years working inside systems—fast-paced, high-pressure environments where people were expected to heal on timelines, check boxes, and function whether or not they felt whole. The work was important, and the people were powerful, but the pace left little room for presence.
What I started to see was this:
People weren’t just tired. They were soul-tired. Disconnected from their bodies. Performing resilience. Surviving under expectations that didn’t reflect their reality.
And truthfully, I felt it too. I knew how to hold space clinically, but I also felt called to hold it differently. More slowly. More deeply. More honestly. That’s what led me to create Amplify Mind Body.
A space where healing isn’t reduced to a checklist. Where science and soul are not in opposition. Where your process is honored, not pathologized. This is what I call soul work. It’s what happens when we stop chasing change and start making space for it to arrive.
Where Clinical Meets Creative
My work is grounded in the science of the nervous system and shaped by the art of being human. I bring clinical training, evidence-informed methods, and decades of experience to every session. But just as important is how I show up: attuned, present, and fully human. Over the last 20 years, I’ve worked across systems, from psychiatric hospitals to in-home therapy to crisis centers and outpatient care. I’ve supported individuals navigating trauma, grief, chronic illness, identity shifts, and burnout.
That experience informs my ability to hold complexity, but what transforms the space is how I meet you, moment to moment. I’m trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Neuroscience-Based Coaching, and Integrative Somatic Parts Work. I’ve completed my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, and I’m a certified breathwork facilitator, blending movement and breath into healing in a way that’s both gentle and powerful. I’m also currently pursuing training in sound healing and meditation, and completing a trauma-informed Doctorate in Social Work.
Whether we’re working clinically or in a coaching container, I tailor each session to your nervous system, your identity, and your capacity, because healing isn’t one-size-fits-all. We might use movement. We might pause for breath. We might sit in silence. And we’ll always move in a way that honors both what’s rising and what’s ready. This work is layered, intuitive, relational, and real. Because your healing doesn’t live in a textbook. It lives in your body. Your timing. Your truth.
