Our Mission
Leave Your Mark is dedicated to empowering individuals to lead extraordinary lives by unlocking their true potential, overcoming personal challenges, and fostering meaningful, lasting change. Our mission is to provide the essential tools, strategies, and resources needed to achieve personal and professional aspirations, enhance quality of life, and make positive contributions to their communities. By doing so, we enable others to leave their own mark on the world, nurturing the next generation and inspiring continuous growth.
Strategies & Plans
Nick has dedicated over a decade to professional and personal development in various areas to ensure individuals and families can progress successfully through all life stages.
He offers a wide range of therapeutic and coaching services to support individuals, couples, and families. In his practice, clients talk, feel, articulate emotions, pinpoint trigger areas, form a plan, execute it, and evaluate its effectiveness. This method ensures a thorough and effective therapeutic process tailored to the unique needs of each individual.
He also specializes in working with adolescents, guiding them in building resilience, confidence, and balance. He uses sand tray, art, and play therapy to help children express themselves and communicate in ways that feel natural to them.
For parents of high-performing children, he provides parental counseling to help the parents understand their child's high performing mind and manage the stress, anxiety, and perfectionism that often come with it.
Beyond family support, Nick offers couples counseling to strengthen relationships through improved communication, trust, and connection.
His background in sports psychology and performance coaching helps athletes, professionals, and other high performers manage pressure, sharpen focus, and reach their goals without sacrificing well-being.
Whether through counseling or coaching, Nick’s approach blends compassion with practical strategies to foster growth, resilience, and lasting success.
The Difference between Counseling and Performance Coaching
While counseling primarily addresses mental health concerns and emotional well-being, performance coaching is more focused on building tools like personal development, confidence, resilience, emotional regulation, and goal setting. Counseling tends to be more clinically oriented and involves the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders, while performance coaching does not involve diagnosing or treating psychological conditions.
It's important to note that the boundaries between counseling and performance coaching can sometimes overlap, and Nick may incorporate elements of both disciplines into his practice. Ultimately, the choice between counseling and performance coaching depends on an individual's specific needs and goals, whether they are seeking therapeutic support to address mental health concerns or looking for guidance and motivation to achieve personal and professional objectives.
Performance coaching is an out of pocket expense, counseling may be covered by insurance depending on what company the client has.
Nickolas Nichols
Biography
Since 2012, Nickolas Nichols has been dedicated to coaching and facilitating the healing process for individuals. In his early twenties, he excelled as a collegiate athlete and assumed leadership roles within his team. He attained his undergraduate and master's degrees from Seton Hill University, and although originally from Pennsylvania, he has embraced Virginia Beach, Virginia as his cherished home since relocating there in 2014. His professional journey began as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and since 2012, he has amassed invaluable expertise in diverse mental health settings, including acute psychiatric and residential placement facilities, as well as intensive in-home and outpatient therapy services. Additionally, he has gained unparalleled insights into the intricate dynamics of family systems and the distinctive needs of military communities. Nick is widely recognized for his specialized training in art therapy, play therapy, sand tray therapy, and adolescence/individual therapy, further augmenting his proficiency in Human Needs Psychology. Currently, he continues his education through the esteemed Robbins-Madanes Training Program. As a seasoned professional in both Therapy and performance coaching, he exhibits an unwavering passion for unlocking human potential and transcending mental barriers.
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