Meet Nicole
nicole CHURCHILL, ma, mt-bc (she/her)
Founder, Teaching Staff, Curriculum Design
Nicole is a board-certified Music Therapist, Transpersonal Counselor, and the creator of Psychedelic Dharma. She is also the founder of a global music therapy project called One Big Band. Nicole is trained as a Psychedelic Therapist with advanced credentialing in Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapy from the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness, where she was on staff for several years. Additionally, Nicole is a co-designer of the Planetary Dharma curriculum.
Her extensive training in the healing arts includes certification as a RYT 200 Kundalini Yoga Instructor, and she serves as an Expressive Movement Facilitator, integrating diverse modalities to support holistic healing and transformation.
Nicole is a founding member of the Integral Institute led by esteemed Transpersonal/Integral philosopher, Ken Wilber, and was mentored for 15 years by respected author and clinical psychologist Dr. Daniel P. Brown. She has completed advanced training in the following areas: attachment therapy, hypnosis, gestalt, addictions, anxiety disorders, depression, conflict resolution, positive psychology for peak performance, CCRT (Core Conflict Relational Themes), and the “Pointing Out” style of Mahamudra meditation.
Nicole earned her BA from Boston’s world renowned Berklee College of Music (1993), where she majored in voice and songwriting. She was awarded a dual Masters from Naropa University in Boulder, CO, where she studied Transpersonal Psychology and Music Therapy (2001).
In addition to her work at Planetary Dharma, she is the Executive Director of the Karuna Mandala Initiative, a 501 (c) (3) umbrella organization that nurtures, cross-pollinates, and actualizes projects that aim to raise human consciousness and develop wisdom culture in support of a good, true, beautiful, and sustainable future for our planet.
Married to her partner, John since 2000, they share two teen-agers together - Trinity and Bodhi (and 3 dogs….Leo, Harper and Moose).