Nicole Sheppard, LPCC

Nicole is a licensed psychotherapist and clinical supervisor at Mental Health Systems (MHS) in Roseville, MN. At MHS, she facilitates Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) groups and provides mindfulness-based individual therapy to adolescents (16+) and adults. Nicole has clinical, research and training, community development, and lived experience in transracial/transnational adoption, birth family search/reunion, suicide/prevention, mindfulness, trauma, identity development, and life transitions. Nicole lived in South Korea from 2002-2010 and served as the vice secretary general of Global Oversea Adoptees' Link (GOA'L), a non-profit and non-governmental organization founded by and for Korean adoptees in 1998. In her role at GOA'L she was the annual summer conference director, led a mentor/mentee program, and oversaw the internship program helping many adoptees in their journeys to return to Korea to explore their roots. She currently enjoys working with adoptee clients to improve their life quality through normalizing and providing education on how adoption impacts our lives, and to reduce stigma and barriers to accessing effective mental health care.