Dr. Nicole Medina-Salvatore, PsyD, is passionate about her work and cares about her clients deeply. She believes in radical acceptance of all people and is an LGBTQ+ affirmative therapist. As a mother of five children, she understands many of the issues that families face, and she strives to be an upfront and empathic provider. Dr. Salvatore’s psychological frame is attachment-based and feminist in nature. She is well versed in many evidence-based practices, with an emphasis in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and family therapy. She is certified in Functional Family Therapy (FFT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), and she is a certified trauma therapist with training in EMDR.
Her specialties include trauma, suicidal ideation, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Autism Spectrum Disorder, attachment issues, religious issues, women’s issues, and parenting skills.
Dr. Medina-Salvatore graduated from Azusa Pacific University (’08) with Honors with a major in Psychology and a minor in Biblical Studies. She earned her Master’s degree (’13) and her PsyD (’15) from Antioch University New England. Her research during graduate school centered on Asian Americans, family therapy, and women’s issues. She completed her APA predoctoral internship (’14) at Western Youth Services in Orange County, CA, where she was also trained on the ADOS-2. Her APA postdoctoral residency was at Kaiser Antioch in Antioch, CA, which emphasized treating adolescents and young adults at risk for hospitalization or who had just been released from the hospital for suicide attempts. She has been a licensed clinical psychologist in Utah since December 2016
Since moving to Utah in 2016, she has been working with suicidal and personality-disordered adults and teens in residential and community mental health settings, as well as providing psychological testing. In her free time she enjoys playing with her daughters and 3 step-children, spending time with friends, and smothering her three cats, Marshmallow, Mabon, and Chococat, with love and affection.
