Nicole Hsiang Shieh graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2012 and has 10+ years of experience working in both community and private practice clinical settings, including college campuses, low income housing and homeless youth shelters.

Before she pursued a degree in counseling, Nicole’s work experience included fundraising and development in the social change non profit sector. She raised money for the sexual violence organization, SF Women Against Rape where she was also a volunteer hotline counselor. This experience led her to become curious about how to “go deeper” in her listening to those experiencing the impact of sexual traumas.

Nicole started her journey to becoming a therapist through meditation practice and participating in week-long silent meditation retreats, engaging in Buddhist teachings about the nature of suffering in all living creatures. In graduate school, she landed on psychoanalysis as a radical practice that explores the unconscious and subjectivity that is always being shaped by the social and cultural field. This led her to pursue a two year post-graduate training in psychoanalytic therapy, learning how to adapt psychoanalytic ideas in our contemporary, multicultural world.

In addition to therapy, she has taught classes, facilitated workshops, case conferences, and provides clinical supervision to pre-licensed trainees.

Education

  • Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from California Institute for Integral Studies

  • Bachelors in Sociology, Wesleyan University

  • Access Institute Psychoanalytic Training Program

Clinical Work Experience

  • Access Institute

  • The Clinic Without Walls

  • Larkin Street Youth Services

  • Asian Community Mental Health Services

  • San Francisco State University Counseling Center

Teaching Experience

  • Adjunct Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2020-2021

Corporate Presentations

Beyond the Stigma: A Conversation about Mental Illness in the API Community, November 2021

The Mental Health Impact of Anti-Asian Violence, January 2022

API Healing and Community Empowerment, February 2022