Dr. Nicki J. Monti
The Thinking Person's Doctor
Dr. Nicki changes lives. But that's not what she'd say. She would tell you that she's the catalyst, that her clients change their own lives. That her clients accept the difficult challenge of examining their belief systems and exposing change. It's no wonder that Dr. Nicki is known as "The Thinking Person's Doctor."
Throughout her work, Dr. Nicki uses her extraordinary compassion, sense of fun and humor, and years of experience to bring light to the basis of her work: that everything we do from start to finish is about relationships - the relationship we have with ourselves and the relationship we have to others. How we play out those relationships decides how our life feels from moment to moment, from day to day, and from decade to decade.
Dr. Nicki learned through her own experiences that none of us need feel defeated by the experiences of our lives. Everything that happens gives to us more than it takes from us, if we know how to take what is given.
Whether working with her one-on-one, using her new book and workbook, or attending one of her ground breaking workshops, Dr. Nicki provides people with the tools they need to identify their defenses, solutions for coping with, or neutralizing, defensiveness, and alternative ways to deal with specific defensive reactions.
Dr. Nicki's credentials are impressive. But more impressive than her credentials is the woman herself. Dr. Nicki does not walk into a room unnoticed. Her life-altering work has impacted the lives of many people. She has been described as an in-your-face therapist, a description that makes her proud.
"Directness and truth-telling are two of my basic professional tools," says Dr. Nicki.
Dr. Nicki was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of traveling sales people. When she was seven she went away to boarding schools for 11 years, first to Ojai, then on to the East Coast. After finishing school, she spent a year in Europe before coming back to America.
At age 37, after working at many different jobs, and on the good advice of her goddaughter, Nicki went back to school to get her psychology credentials. She was sitting in an intake session and in a flash of truth realized: "This is it." She knew that she had found her calling.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin (B.A. in Communications), Sierra University (M.A. in Psychology), and Pacific Western University (Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology), Dr. Nicki received additional training at the highly esteemed Southern California Counseling Clinic and at the Sojourn Shelter for Abused Women and Children. She also has studied with such innovators as Hal Stone, creator of voice dialogue, and internationally recognized author and teacher of self-realization, W. Brugh Joy, M.D.
In 1987, Dr. Nicki began her private clinical practice, which includes lectures, workshops, and courses on a wide range of topics. She works with individuals, couples, and groups, specializing in interpersonal relationships and addictions (to drugs, food, money, people, sex, work).
In late 2002, Dr. Nicki released her long awaited book, Stuck In The Story No More, and companion workbook, Stuck No More. A unique, breakthrough approach to the examination of the devastating impact unconscious psychological defenses can have on individuals, Stuck in the Story No More shows how the crippling patterns of those defenses can be identified and broken. Her book includes a set of simple tools to help people understand and interrupt the defenses that hold them back from having the life they want.
The Stuck No More workbook addresses the ways in which readers can learn more about their particular defenses, and how they can do something concrete and positive about them. They learn vital, genuine solutions for change.
The book's forward is by Margaret Cho, who attributes Dr. Nicki with saving her life.
Stuck in the Story No More can be ordered by calling (877) NOT-STUK (668-7885) and is available at the two Borders Books mentioned above as well as Bodhi Tree bookstore in Beverly Hills and on this website.
Dr. Nicki is also proud to add to her work her weekly appearance on the second season of A&E TV's The Two Coreys.
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Dr. Nicki, a CEU approved presenter, offers a variety of workshops, addressing a wide range of topics and issues, that help people improve their lives, emotionally, spiritually and logically.
Her current workshop series includes:
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