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Holistic Psychotherapist Nicole S. Urdang, MS, NCC, DHM, LMHC.

The purpose of Holistic Divorce Counseling is to provide support, resources, and comfort for all life’s issues and transitions, not just the cosmic hazing of divorce.

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Compare to Despair or Cultivate Self-Acceptance

By Nicole Urdang | January 5, 2016
Posted in Relationships, Self-compassion

Comparison is the death of joy. Mark Twain If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back. Regina Brett If you look at the symbol commonly used to show Yin and Yang you will notice each of the larger shapes has a small circle of the opposite […]

Family Secrets: How to Overcome their Toxic Legacy 

By Nicole Urdang | December 14, 2015
Posted in Addiction/OCD, Trauma

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. Paul Tournier We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost, The Secret Sits In families where there is addiction, abuse, criminal behavior, or mental illness, there is usually a code of silence that dictates the actions […]

Change your words, change your relationships

By Nicole Urdang | November 17, 2015
Posted in Relationships

“There exists, for everyone, a sentence – a series of words – that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you’re lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.” Philip K. Dick, VALIS “Words! What power they […]

Finding solid ground when you lose your way

By Nicole Urdang | September 27, 2015
Posted in Inner work

I got lost but look what I found. Irving Berlin When you lose your way and forget who you are, your beauty, your kindness, your connection to all that is, come back home. There is a trail of breadcrumbs leading to your true self. A self capable of curiosity, creativity, confidence, courage, unconditional self-acceptance, and […]

Adult Children’s Revelations After Divorce

By Nicole Urdang | September 23, 2015
Posted in Betrayal, Divorce

Oh! What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. Sir Walter Scott As time moves on from your divorce you can be sure of one thing: There will always be new revelations from your children. At times, they will rock your world and make you question your own memories. Whatever they […]

How Abandonment Issues Affect Intimate Relationships

By Nicole Urdang | August 25, 2015
Posted in Abandonment, Relationships, Trauma

“Finally, I decide I am my own case history, and if I don’t dig in to understand what I am doing, I will be spending the years ahead in a vexing pattern of intimacy and abandonment.” Dominique Browning in “Slow Love” Dig in is right. Dig in and root around is even more accurate. Of […]

Music to support your journey

By Nicole Urdang | August 23, 2015
Posted in Life enhancers

Yes! It’s time for another musical interlude. Bob Marley sings Every Little Thing Warren Haynes sings Soulshine Joe Cocker sings You Are So Beautiful

Ditch Your Assumptions and Create More Fulfilling Relationships

By Nicole Urdang | June 5, 2015
Posted in Relationships

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Isaac Asimov “If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don’t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. […]

Getting Over the Shame of Divorce

By Nicole Urdang | May 4, 2015
Posted in Divorce

“We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others.” ― Brené Brown: I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame While it’s easy to feel ashamed of many things in life, the process of divorce and its aftermath […]

Overcome Victimization and Become More Resilient

By Nicole Urdang | March 15, 2015
Posted in Depression

 Many therapists say you have to let go of the victim role to heal more fully. While that is definitely a good goal, it is also important to understand how you were victimized. Why? Because your path to wholeness depends, in part, on cultivating compassion for that child, teen, or adult who was mistreated, […]

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Nicole Urdang

Nicole UrdangNicole S. Urdang, M.S., NCC, DHM is a Holistic Psychotherapist in Buffalo, NY. She holds a New York state license in mental health counseling and a doctorate in homeopathic medicine from the British Institute of Homeopathy.

As an Associate Fellow at the Albert Ellis Institute Nicole trained with the founder of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy for over 25 years.

Nicole has studied psychology, philosophy, yoga, nutrition, clinical hypnosis, journaling, dream analysis, Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Sexuality and Gender Issues at the Kinsey Institute, Inner Child work, Internal Family Systems, Bach Flower Essences, herbs, Tapping (EFT), homeopathy, meditation, Sanskrit mantras, and yogic breath work all of which inform her holistic approach to mind-body issues.

In the early 1980s she created and hosted one of the country’s first call-in radio counseling shows on WKBW.

If you live outside the greater Buffalo-Niagara area and would like to speak with Nicole, you can schedule a phone session. Contact information is available on goodtherapy.org or just call 716-882-0848.

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