My name is Nicole Scrivano (she/her) and I am the Director of Life Coaching and Therapy (LCAT) and a licensed therapist (LMFT) at LCAT. I have had the pleasure of working in this practice since it opened in 2017. I love this practice and what it means to be a therapist. I graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2013 with a master’s degree with a specialty in Marriage and Family Therapy. I have been trained in various methods. My personal favorites are “parts work,” non-violent (compassionate) communication, and integrated sex and couples therapy. 

My passion is to work with people around trauma, relationships, and identity. I approach therapy with each person differently because everyone is different. My belief is through using curiosity, authenticity, humor, and compassion, it allows us to co-create a space for healing and growth for individuals and their relational systems. Generally, I have found it useful to people to reflect on their emotional reactions and ways that those strategies are or are not supporting their needs and goals. In doing this, often we are able to collaborate towards finding new strategies that are oriented toward their healing and growth. It is also my fundamental belief that connection and pleasure are healing. This belief is interwoven throughout my practice to support my clients in building attunement to themselves and others through enhancing connection and pleasure with themselves and those closet to them. 

For as long as I can remember, I have been committed to supporting others and listening to their stories. In therapy, everyone has their own story, perspective, view, or whatever you want to call it… and I work with my clients to learn theirs and explore it. Although I am trained in various methods (including EMDR, DBT, parts work, various sex therapy techniques, etc.), I am committed to utilizing an intersectional, queer, feminist approach to working with all my clients. I believe that it is vital to the therapeutic process to be mindful of the varying identities and systems that make up and influence people’s stories to empower each person. I am committed to being an identity- and relational-affirming therapist, whether you are queer, kinky, poly, within the BIPOC community (and beyond), differently abled, or full of the neurospice and sparkle – I am here to sit in it all with you to learn your story and vibe to meet your goals and support your growth.

The ways in which you can find me connecting and seeking pleasure outside of my work are drinking some iced caffeinated beverage while either reading or being weird, feral, and/or loud with my family and friends.