Where experience meets the work that matters.
Whether you're working through something personal, stepping into a new professional chapter, building your clinical skills, or leading a team through change, the work is shaped by your context, your goals, and what will actually hold up over time. Nova Praxis Alliance brings the same values to every engagement: honest collaboration, deep respect for lived experiences, and a commitment to support that grows alongside the people receiving it.
ORGANIZATIONS · TEAMS · HIGHER ED
Consultation
Helping the systems people depend on work the way they should.
Organizational assessment, structural redesign, psychological safety, values audits, and trusted advising for leaders navigating change.
Organizations, teams, and institutions are only as strong as the values they practice, not just the ones they post on a wall. NPA partners with leaders, educators, and teams to build environments where ethical care, cultural inclusion, and reflective practice are lived reality, not aspirational language.
This work takes many forms: organizational assessment and structural redesign, psychological safety strategies, values and culture audits, inclusive program development, and advising for leaders navigating change, power dynamics, and culture shifts. NPA also helps teams and supervisors develop the relational leadership skills that conflict and complexity demand: leadership grounded in empathy, accountability, and the willingness to sit with discomfort rather than react to it.
Within higher education specifically, this practice draws on over 18 years of the founder's experiences as an counselor, supervisor, educator, and organizational leader. That depth spans the full scope of institutional operations: financial risk assessment and budget strategy, curriculum design and accreditation alignment, faculty development and evaluation, new program development from market analysis through Board approval, organizational restructuring, and strategic leadership across student and academic affairs. NPA also consults on the challenges reshaping higher education right now, including integrating AI into the classroom and administrative workflows, navigating shared governance during periods of institutional change, and supporting leaders and faculty through the kind of generational and cultural shifts that no policy manual can prepare you for.
WORKSHOPS · SUPERVISION
Training & Continuing Education
Where learning moves from ideas into action.
CE-eligible workshops, group supervision, and custom trainings; participatory, experiential, and built to actually use.
The best training doesn't just deliver information, it invites people to think out loud, challenge assumptions, and walk away with something they can actually use. NPA's offerings are participatory, experiential, and designed to connect what professionals know with how they practice.
Available trainings include CE-eligible workshops, group supervision, and custom-designed programs on topics including burnout and sustainable practice, cultural humility and affirming care, clinical supervision, and supporting LGBTQIA+ and other diverse communities. NPA also offers leadership development training for supervisors, department chairs, directors, and emerging leaders navigating the realities of leading teams through change, conflict, and complexity. These are not topics covered from a distance; they are grounded in published research, years of clinical practice, and direct experience leading the teams and institutions they affect most.
Whether the setting is a classroom, a consultation room, or a conference stage, the approach is trauma-informed and relational, designed around the real, evolving needs of the people in the room.
TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
Speaking & Keynotes
Talks that stay with people after they leave the room.
Grounded in years of clinical experience, leadership, and published research; every talk tailored to the audience.
Speaking engagements through Nova Praxis Alliance are built to do more than inform. They're designed to make people think, feel something, and leave with a reason to do things differently; each talk grounded in years of clinical experience, leadership in higher education, and an extensive portfolio of national and regional presentations and publications.
Common topics include LGBTQIA+ mental health and advocacy, counselor identity development, burnout and vicarious trauma, ethics in supervision, inclusive leadership,
and narrative approaches to healing and growth. Whether the setting is a professional conference, a university, or an organizational retreat, every presentation is tailored to the audience; connecting research, lived experience, and honest storytelling in a way that actually moves people to act.
INDIVIDUALS · RELATIONSHIPS · GROUPS
Counseling & Clinical Care
A space to reconnect with yourself and the life you want to be living.
Individual, couples, and group counseling for identity, burnout, grief, and life transitions: affirming and culturally responsive.
Counseling is a collaborative process; a place to slow down, reflect on where you've been, and get honest about where you want to go. NPA works with individuals, couples and relationships, and groups navigating identity development, relationship concerns, emotional overwhelm, burnout, grief, and the kind of life stressors that can quietly erode your sense of clarity and well-being.
Nova Praxis Alliance brings deep respect for the lived experiences that shape how each person moves through the world, and affirm the resilience, insight, and strength carried by LGBTQIA+ individuals and others whose identities are central to their story. Drawing from narrative, feminist, existential, and systems-based approaches, the work with NPA helps you make sense of the chapters already written, and find your way into the ones that haven't. Private pay and insurance are accepted. Visit the founder's Psychology Today profile for more details: Click Here
FOR CL INICIANS
Supervision & Mentorship
Growing into the professional you want to be, and building a practice that reflects it.
Supervision, mentorship, and practice development for clinicians at every stage of the journey.
Whether you're an associate-level clinician working toward licensure, a seasoned practitioner looking for reflection and renewal, or someone ready to launch or reshape a practice of your own, this work is about bringing your professionalidentity into sharper focus.
Supervision and mentorship create space to develop your clinical voice, sit with the harder questions about ethics, culture, and identity, and engage your work with real intention. We draw from narrative, constructivist, and relational models to explore what it looks like to practice with both skill and integrity.
For those building or evolving a practice, NPA partners on the structural side: operations, service models, values-informed decision-making, and the strategic thinking that helps you create something sustainable without losing sight of why you started.
