Nick Potter, M.A., LPC

About Nick

Nick is a Licensed Professional Counselor at Integrative Health Consultants of West Michigan. Counseling helps individuals, groups, and families from all backgrounds to accomplish their optimum level of mental health and attain wellness. These outcomes are achieved in the lives of clients through prevention, advocacy, and empowerment. Nick has experience working with adults who are dealing with mental health disorders such as major depression, trauma, and anxiety through individual counseling. He uses Cognitive Behavioral and Existential Therapeutic modalities as a means to collaborate, educate, and treat clients. Nick was previously a registered behavior technician and worked with children diagnosed with autism using behavioral therapy for seven years before stepping into a licensed role.

“My goal is to equip clients experiencing mental health disorders by using evidence-based treatment, assessments, diagnostic techniques, and plan-of-action prevention. With these counseling tools I am able to help clients decrease symptoms impeding mental health; This also helps clients achieve and maintain wellness”.

Nick graduated from Western Michigan's Clinical Mental Health Counseling program with a Master of Arts. Western is nationally accredited through CACREP for counselors. Nick was also a member of the Chi Sigma Iota Clinical Mental Health Counselor’s honor society while completing his degree.

Contact Nick: 616-773-2908 ext 116

EMAIL: nick.potter@ihcwestmichigan.com

Education

• Bachelors Degree - Psychology - Grand Valley State University

• M. A. Clinical Mental Health Counseling - Western Michigan University

Treatment Interests

• Individual Psychotherapy for adolescents, young adults, adults

• Anxiety

• Autism

• Asperger’s

• Bi-Polar I & II

• Career

• Co-Occurring Disorders

• Coparenting

• Depression

• Divorce

• Emerging Adulthood

• Existential Concerns

• Frontliners & First Responder Support

• LGBTQ+

• Men’s Issues

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• Phobias

• PTSD

• Race-Based Trauma

• Racial Identity Development

• Religious Trauma

• Sensory Processing Disorder

• Sexual Identity

• Spiritual Issues

• Substance Use

• Trauma

Therapeutic Approaches

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• CBT-Insomnia

• Culturally-Informed Therapy

• Existential Therapy

• Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

• Gottman Couples Therapy

• Interpersonal Therapy

• Motivational Interviewing

• Prolonged Exposure

• Solution-Focused Treatment

• Trauma-Informed Therapy