Meet Nicole Rainey
Nicole Rainey, LMHC, ATR
Nicole Rainey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Registered Art Therapist. After 7 years of experience providing therapy to children, teens, and adults from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and life experience, she started Mosaic Creative Counseling. She believes therapy should focus on healing through authentic self-expression. As a registered art therapist, she strives to make clients feel safe and comfortable expressing themselves and problem solving through talk, imagery, or creativity. Nicole’s experience includes working with diverse populations recovering from trauma history, relational and family issues, grief/loss, foster care and adoption concerns. Prior to private practice, her work has specifically focused on survivors of sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, violence, and sex trafficking/prostitution. Nicole has specific training in Trauma- Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Adoption Competency, as well as working with survivors of sexual exploitation. Nicole Rainey provides the Tallahassee Florida community with specialized trauma therapy and art therapy services. After work, Nicole enjoys painting with watercolors or throwing pottery. She loves playing with animals and looks forward to traveling.
Nicole’s expertise and Training Areas
Art Therapy & Expressive Arts Therapy
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Art Therapy & Expressive Arts Therapy
As a Registered Art Therapist, Nicole Rainey uses art and creative expression to help client’s through the therapeutic process. Her unique approach provides creative counseling services to the Tallahassee Florida community.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Art Therapy & Expressive Arts Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS) or “parts work” is a counseling modality for treating various forms of trauma. Nicole Rainey is trained in IFS and uses this with clients who are ready for trauma recovery. Using IFS she provides trauma therapy in Tallahassee.
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
TF-CBT is a trauma therapy model for children and teens. Nicole Rainey is trained in TF-CBT to help children and adolescents in Tallahassee tell their story and recover from trauma.
Adoption Competency & Foster Care Issues
Adoption Competency & Foster Care Issues
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Nicole Rainey is trained in Adoption Competency and has over 4 years specializing in counseling with children in the dependency foster care system in Tallahassee, Florida.
Therapy for Therapists
Adoption Competency & Foster Care Issues
Adolescents & Young Adults
Nicole Rainey specializes in helping fellow healers and therapists. Many of her clients are social workers, therapists, counselors, and fellow healers who are working to avoid vicarious trauma and burn out. She specializes in providing counseling for therapists in Tallahassee or the state of Florida.
Adolescents & Young Adults
Adoption Competency & Foster Care Issues
Adolescents & Young Adults
Nicole Rainey sees clients as young as 5, but specializes in counseling the age of young adolescents to millennial adults.
Feminist & Female Issues
Sexual Trafficking & Exploitation
Feminist & Female Issues
Many of Nicole’s clients identify as female. She is well versed in helping folks who identify as female with a range of counseling issues.
Sexual Abuse & Trauma
Sexual Trafficking & Exploitation
Feminist & Female Issues
Nicole previously worked at the Sexual Abuse Treatment Center in Tallahassee and has specialized in working with families and survivors of sexual abuse and trauma. Nicole Rainey has expertise in providing sexual abuse specific trauma therapy in Tallahassee.
Sexual Trafficking & Exploitation
Sexual Trafficking & Exploitation
Sexual Trafficking & Exploitation
For over two years, Nicole specialized in counseling with survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation. She has received specialized training in the area of trafficking and has published a thesis about using art therapy with sex trafficking survivors. Nicole Rainey specializes in sex trafficking trauma therapy in Tallahassee.
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