Twynesha "Nicole" Reed, LCSW, LSCSW

Twynesha "Nicole" Reed is a licensed social worker with two decades of experience supporting children, adolescents, and adults who have faced traumatic events. She is credentialed as an LCSW and an LSCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker - and holds professional licenses in Missouri and Kansas. Over the course of her career she has focused extensively on trauma work, including a 12-year specialty assisting survivors of sexual abuse and assault, and she routinely helps people coping with depression, anxiety, low self-worth, parenting challenges, sleep difficulties, questions of sexual identity, and grief.

Her therapeutic approach blends evidence-informed methods to match each person’s needs. She draws on Narrative Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to reshape personal stories and set practical goals, uses Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral techniques and Motivational Interviewing for trauma recovery and behavior change, and incorporates Procovery and mindfulness practices to support regulation and resilience. She emphasizes healing across mind, body, and spirit and works collaboratively to identify pathways toward greater wellbeing. Twynesha Reed aims to create a respectful, strengths-based environment where individuals and families can address painful experiences and build healthier ways of coping and relating.