Nikki Yardy

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Certified EMDR therapist, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, She/Her

Founder & CLinical Director

nikki@viragowellness.com

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You don’t have to live with the ghosts of your past.


  • I work with women in Maine and New York who struggle with self worth and relationships as well as anxiety and panic after adverse experiences, especially harm caused by other people.

    I specialize in helping women improve self-worth, depression, anxiety, and traumatic stress by utilizing EMDR with other therapeutic approaches to reprocess traumatic memories and adverse experiences and reduce the impacts of the past.

    I also have a complex trauma history. EMDR has been a huge part of my own healing. I understand what it’s like to be in your shoes, feeling lost, overwhelmed, and like you’re crazy.

    Healing from trauma is intense work but the relief you can find on the other side of the work is so worth the effort. You deserve that.

  • I’m an EMDR certified therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant. I utilize EMDR to support women in reprocessing traumatic memories to heal from the things they lived through or experienced in order to lead happier and healthier lives today. My areas of specialty are complex trauma, recent event protocol, and EMDR in group settings.

    In order to become an EMDR therapist, professionals have to complete over 6 days of basic training, an additional 12 hours of continuing education, 20 hours of consultation, demonstrate mastery of the model, provide EMDR to 25 clients, seek 30 hours of consultation, and provide 3 letters of recommendation from other licensed professionals.

  • I started in the mental health field in 2009. I’ve worked in residential, wilderness therapy, outpatient, and school-based settings. I shifted my focus to women’s mental health in 2014, and founded Virago Wellness in 2019.

    I was trained in EMDR in 2021 and am certified in EMDR, and EMDRIA approved Consultant, and Facilitator for Trauma Recovery EMR HAP.

    I am Certified Clinical Trauma Profession with additional training for treatment Complex-PTSD

    I’ve completed additional training to utilize parts work (structural dissociation) and somatic approaches to support people with more complex trauma and attachment challenges.

  • Email nikki@viragowellness.com to inquire about professional consultation for trauma treatment, EMDR, starting a private practice and more.

    https://www.confidenttraumatherapist.com/


Advanced Training

  • EMDR Basic Training with EMDR Institute 2021

  • EMDRIA Approved Consultant and EMDR Certified

  • Trauma Recovery EMDR HAP Facilitator

  • 2024 R-TEP/G-TEP Training

  • 2023 Advanced Training Mastering the Treatment of Complex Trauma 1,2 & 3: Integrating Structural Dissociation

  • 2022 Scaling Up EMDR Intensives Course

  • 2022 Advanced Training Somatic and Ego-State

    Therapies with EMDR

  • 2020 Essentials of Trauma Treatment: Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) Training Course

  • 2015 JRI Trauma Conference

  • Additional Advanced training in treatment of trauma related dissorders

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