Jennifer Scott, Former Editorial Director, The Gottman Institute:

• Mental Health and Workplace Wellbeing
• Embracing Uncertainty and Managing Anxiety
• Work Life Balance and Preventing and Recovering from Burn out
• Compassion Fatigue
• The Benefits of Movement and Being in Nature 
• Transition to Parenthood for Couples and Maternal Mental Health
• The Invisible Load 
• Conscious Parenting and Raising Resilient Children
• Trauma informed and Strengths Based Organizations
• Women's Empowerment, Communication and Boundary Setting
• Living your purpose
• Gender Based Violence

• Masters of Education, Counselling Psychology, University of Western Ontario, 2002
• Honours, Bachelors of Arts (Sociology), Kings University College, 2000

• Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional, 2022
• Woman of Distinction Award, Cambridge YWCA, 2020
• Graduate, Leadership Waterloo Region, 2016 (10 month externship)
• Certified Gottman Educator, The Bringing Baby Home Transition to Parenthood for Couples, 2007 
• 20 years in a local mental health organization; Partner Assault Response (PAR) program, Violence Against Women, Creative Coping (Anxiety and Stress) and Student and Clinical Supervision
• Former member of DART- Domestic Assault Review Team  and SART- Sexual Assault Review Team of Waterloo Region

Nicole Schiener is an award winning Registered Psychotherapist on a mission to foster health and wellness at home and at work. She brings twenty years experience as a mental health professional, group facilitator and mom. She is dedicated to liberating mothers from perfectionism and the pressure to do it all and supporting those in the helping profession protect against burn out and secondary trauma.

Nicole is an active volunteer and public speaker in the Waterloo Region and has been featured in several podcasts and globally recognized publications.

Nicole is on a mission to help women recover from the trauma and stress of this Pandemic and  liberate mothers at all stages from perfectionism and the pressure to do it all.  She empowers anxious and overwhelmed women to challenge the myths of motherhood to cultivate more peace and joy through evidence based practices.  

Throughout her childhood and most of her adult life she struggled with generalized anxiety and perfectionism. Utilizing the mind/body tools learned over her psychotherapy career and holistic healing, she learned to embrace uncertainty and be a brave, not perfect writer, speaker and social justice advocate. 

Raised by divorced parents with a legacy of generational trauma, she shares insights from 20 years of group work focused on healthy relationships, specialized training and the lessons learned from an equal and loving marriage on the Gottman Institute Blog. 

Nicole loves empowering mothers to free themselves from societal conditioning and wrote about mindfulness and how to embrace the opportunities within parenting challenges in a column "Mindful Mama" for a local magazine, The Holistic Parent from 2014-2018. 

She's overcome chronic pain and recovered from vicarious trauma and burn out through walking daily, therapy, coaching, energy and physical healing. She left her non-profit agency job in September 2021 to start a private practice devoted to empowering new and stressed out moms with walking sessions along the Grand River and trauma informed and mental wellness workshops for organizations.  Everything she does is motivated by a desire to foster healthy relationships, beginning with the one with ourselves.