Welcome! I’m Nicole Frost, LCSW, CSAT, CPTT. I specialize in childhood and adult trauma, betrayal trauma, addiction, compulsive sexual behavior, and complex relationship concerns. My therapeutic approach is direct and compassionate, with an emphasis on understanding the underlying experiences and patterns contributing to current difficulties.

I earned both my undergraduate degree in Business and my Master of Social Work from Arizona State University. I completed a clinical internship at The Meadows in Wickenburg, Arizona, where I received specialized training in trauma and addiction treatment, including Pia Mellody’s Post-Induction Therapy model and work addressing developmental trauma, codependency, boundaries, emotional regulation, and family-of-origin dynamics.

After several years working in trauma and addiction treatment in Orange County, California, I returned to The Meadows, where I previously served as a Clinical Supervisor and lead therapist. My professional experience includes individual and group therapy, clinical supervision, case consultation, and extensive staff training in trauma, addiction, compulsive behaviors, and relationship concerns.

My years of supervising, training, and working alongside mental health professionals have also given me a particular understanding of the unique experience of being a therapist who needs a place to be the client. I enjoy working with therapists and other helping professionals seeking therapy for their own personal concerns.

As a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) and Certified Partner Trauma Therapist (CPTT), I have specialized training in compulsive sexual behavior as well as betrayal trauma. I work with partners affected by infidelity, deception, pornography, and other compulsive sexual behaviors, as well as individuals addressing the behaviors themselves.

I provide therapy for individuals and couples, with areas of expertise that include betrayal trauma, developmental and relational trauma, compulsive sexual behavior, sex and love addiction, substance addiction, codependency, family dysfunction, depression, anxiety, boundaries, communication, and relationship concerns.