Nicole Lansbery, LPC-S, LMFT

Nicole Lansbery is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Nicole attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she received her Bachelor's in Psychology. She attended St. Edward's University to receive her Master's in Counseling. Before starting her private practice ten years ago, Nicole worked at a local psychiatric hospital for five years in both inpatient and intensive outpatient settings. While there, she restarted the pet therapy program with her golden retriever – a certified Pet Partner, Ruby.

Currently, Nicole serves as the Executive Director for a specialty group psychotherapy practice with 25 therapists in Austin, TX. Nicole has received extensive training in DBT and has been providing DBT to the Austin community for 15 years. She enjoys learning and has also spent years studying and completing training in each of the following: Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, and Middelberg's Systemic Training. In addition, Nicole has received training in Radically Open DBT (RODBT), SPACE (a treatment protocol for parents of anxious children), and New Ways for Families. Nicole resides in Austin, TX, with her husband, daughter, boy/girl twins, and two dogs.

Nicole's experiences as a parent, first, and as a mental health professional, second, motivated her to join the Newborn Project Board. Her motherhood journey has included a twin pregnancy and a singleton pregnancy, working with a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, Pelvic Floor Therapy, lactation consultants, having infants in the NICU, being followed by a high-risk developmental clinic, children who need Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and/or Physical Therapy, working with a developmental-behavioral pediatric (DBP) multi-disciplinary team (which includes a pediatrician, physician's assistant, neuropsychologist, child psychologist, etc.), navigating the special education system in schools, parent management training, and more. Nicole realizes the privilege she has to access these services with relative ease and desires to help others navigate these complex systems during one of life's biggest transition periods (during pregnancy and postpartum).