Meet Nicole Powell
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Nicole Powell is a counsellor, meditation teacher, and former paramedic with more than fifteen years of frontline experience. She holds a Master’s degree in Addictive Behaviours, a Diploma of Counselling, a Bachelor of Teaching, a Diploma of Applied Science, and a Bachelor of Arts. This blend of lived experience and academic training gives her work depth, nuance, and a strong evidence-based foundation.
Her two decades of therapeutic training includes Cognitive Therapy (CT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Logotherapy, Motivational Interviewing (MI), trauma-informed practice, mindfulness-based approaches, and Jungian shadow work. She also draws on somatic meditation, dreamwork, and contemplative practices, allowing her to tailor sessions to each client’s natural way of processing and healing. For over a decade, Nicole has taught meditation with the Lifeflow Meditation Centre, leading classes and retreats at both their city studio and country retreat centres. She is the author of a collection of meditation-based books helping children understand emotions, build resilience, and cultivate calm. With more than twenty years of personal practice, a year-long retreat, and training under teachers such as Dr Graham Williams, Andrew Holecek, and Robert Moss, her studies span insight meditation, lucid dreaming, dark retreat practice, calm-and-clarity meditation, end-of-life work, and ayahuasca ceremony. Her extensive travel further enriches her compassionate and culturally informed approach. Her lived experience of childhood trauma and her years as a paramedic inform an approach that is grounded, trauma-aware, and deeply human. As a wife, mother of two daughters, and carer for her elderly mother, she understands the “sandwich effect” many Gen X parents face while trying to reconnect with their own inner life. Nicole works with first responders, people navigating addiction, those wanting to move beyond their past, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of themselves or their life path. She supports clients who feel stuck, repeat unhelpful patterns, struggle to make sense of trauma, or sense an inner shift they have not yet been able to reach. She believes we are all shaped by our experiences, and that transformation unfolds as we reclaim the forgotten pieces of ourselves that make us whole. In addition to individual counselling and meditation sessions, Nicole facilitates group presentations and workshops on meditation, emotional wellbeing, and behavioural change. Her mission is to help clients face their shadows, release the emotional chains that hold them back, and rediscover the freedom, clarity, and joy that emerge when we return to ourselves. |
Name: Nicole Powell Speciality: First Reponders Support & Counselling Room #2 (Mondays and Tuesdays at Kokoro) Website: www.theinnerpiececollective.com.au |
