Nicole Allan, Student Associate and Executive Assistant

Hi there! My name is Nicole and my pronouns are she/her.

I’m in my 6th year as a Marriage and Family Therapy graduate student at the University of Winnipeg where I have participated in practicum placements at Women’s Health Clinic, U of W Wellness and Aurora Family Therapy. 

My passion for guiding folks toward healing by exploring new perspectives is one of the biggest reasons I have been drawn to Positive Perspectives.

The topics that light me up the most when supporting adults are grief, neurodiversity, life transitions, family patterns, and exploring personal identity. I’m currently nerding out on all of the ways that anger, anxiety and depression show up in our bodies through fight, flight and freeze responses.

I navigate the world as a first-born daughter living in a mixed-race body, with one of my parents being South Asian and the other having European heritage. The lens I’ve been gifted with in this lifetime has allowed me to see diversity in culture, language, religion and our bodies as a thing of beauty. 

As as systemic and relational therapist, I lean into Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems Model and exploring the mind-body connection through Polyvagal practices.

Some of the symptoms my clients have reported experiencing before reaching out for therapy are:

1. Always feeling overwhelmed and stressed.
2. Feeling fatigued and like no rest is ever enough.
3. Being angry, resentful or irritated more often than usual.
4. Having constant anxious and intrusive thoughts.
5. Cancelling plans and feeling withdrawn in social settings.
6. Loss of interest in things that used to bring you joy.
7. Motivation being at an all time low.
8. Trying to distract yourself from feeling sad.

Please know that there’s absolutely no shame in needing a little (or alot) of extra support.

I would be happy to chat with you more about your curiosities in beginning therapy and connect with you over a no-cost consultation where I’ll ask you questions about your hopes, what’s bringing you to therapy now, and set aside time for you to ask me questions about therapy or how I work.

I offer in-person and virtual sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Reaching out for support is often the hardest part! If you made it here, I’m really glad you did.