Nissa Chadwick

Nissa Chadwick is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 25 years of experience as a therapist and instructor for graduate-level counseling students. She has a special interest in working with clients in their inner world, in their relationships, and helping with difficulties that arise in those places. She is an Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist with extensive training and experience in attachment work. Nissa also has considerable spiritual formation expertise as a spiritual director trained at Heart of Christ Spiritual Direction Program and deeply enjoys incorporating that into her work with clients as appropriate.

At the core of Nissa’s work is the truth that human beings were each created for union with the Most Holy Trinity in this life and the next. Everything we do in life should serve that end, implicitly or explicitly. Flowing from this union is a life of virtue and rightly ordered love of neighbor and self. Sometimes people have barriers to this kind of deep relationship with the Lord and don’t feel at peace with God, their neighbors, or themselves. So often, a person will try everything he or she can to remedy those relational ruptures or find peace. At times, one can find relief and repair, but at times they don’t, so additional resources are needed. Sometimes there isn’t necessarily a rupture; someone just wants to grow or deepen their relationships with God, others, or themselves, but is not quite sure how to do that. No matter where people find themselves Nissa enjoys accompanying them deeper into their own hearts, deeper into their relationship with the Lord, and deeper into their personal relationships. 

Nissa believes that the healing, flourishing, and holiness of clergy and religious will bring healing to the Church and the world. Healed and integrated priests are what the world desperately needs. They are our spiritual fathers, and when they are well, in right relationship with themselves, others, and in union with God, they can help lead others to the same. One of the greatest privileges Nissa has, is to walk with priests on their healing journeys; she finds it to be truly sacred ground.

Nissa also works with adult women individually, as well as married couples.

Nissa is married and has a 22 year old son and 21 year old daughter. She enjoys a simple, peaceful life being pursued by and pursuing the Lord, hanging out with her family, going for walks with her husband, reading, cooking, and being outside as much as possible.