Hi, I’m Nicole Lippman-Barile, Ph.D.

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Hofstra University, 2014

Nutritional Therapy Practitioner Certification, Nutritional Therapy Association, 2018

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I’d love to tell you about the many things that led me here.

My love for the human brain has been intense for as long as I can remember. I vividly recall helping my psychologist father sort through his paper notes as a young adolescent, actively thinking that his job was the coolest and most important one there could be.

As I acquired my doctorate in Clinical Psychology and specialized in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in my mid-20s, I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) after experiencing years of irregular menstrual cycles and cystic acne. I also experienced a series of unfortunate negative experiences with gynecologists leading me to want to pursue other answers. I was eating fast food 24/7 and never considered modifying my diet to help with my PCOS symptoms.

Soon after an insanely successful random 21 day Elimination Challenge did I become obsessed with the connection between diet + PCOS and sought out education to understand this connection further.

Unfortunately, I didn’t properly vet the online institution I attended and as hindsight tells me, was significantly influenced by what I know now as the Wellness Industry and it’s associated influencers. I completed the 10 month online program and was certified by the Nutritional Therapy Association as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP).

Over the course of a year or so, I grew to understand the many inaccuracies that I was taught via the NTA and that much of the information was not grounded in sound nutritional science. Since this discovery, I now dedicate time to learning (and sometimes “unlearning”) about nutrition science and particularly the relationship between diet and mental health.

I now have a practice where I offer individual psychotherapy services in the state of N.Y. I also contribute to the field of Nutritional Psychology by providing educational content and am currently a lead author on a new course for The Center of Nutritional Psychology. I am also reluctantly active on social media and work to provide reliable evidence based mental health content and help myth bust mental health misinformation.

10+ years of helping people achieve mental wellness later, I realized there still exists a gap between evidence-based information about mental health and what the public knows about how to support it.

So my goal grows and I continue to do what I love most, but with a bigger vision—to provide accessible, simplified mental health information and daily lifestyle/diet modifications to change one mind (and life) at a time.

Now it’s time we change yours.