‍ ‍About Nikaela

I teach art! I am fluent in English and ASL (American Sign Language) and I am a working visual artist. I engage in teaching multiple topics in the arts with mental health support facilitation, developmental disability support facilitation, and specifically conveying concepts through the lens of therapeutic arts. I utilize Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (Dr. Marsha Linehan) and Nonviolent Communication methodologies (Dr. Marshall Rosenberg) as pillars of concepts in my work as a trainer and a facilitator.

    I am a multimedia artist and I proudly carry a family legacy of circus, theater, and musical performing arts upon my shoulders.

Thank you for taking the time to get to know me and I look forward to getting to know you! 

About Katherine

Writer, Performer, Teacher, and Coach in multiple entertainment genres. At present...Enjoying an award winning adventure with a current script project, The Connect. All artistic endeavors are subsidized by my other professional habits as a mental health clinician, university faculty, researcher, and writer in educ/psych.

Awards for The Connect seem to be coming in regularly and this is very humbling but also telling - we all need to see humanity rising right now - and The Connect offers us a glimpse of what is possible for us, if we give ourselves and each other, that little chance to shine. Maybe - just maybe - The Connect will shine enough as a 'script' to encourage its full bloom of production. The vibe is good - despite the rough times we live in - there is 'light' coming - I feel it...