Danielle Nicholson
Instructional Designer
for Therapists
I help therapists scale their income and share their expertise by designing courses, events, and digital products for private practices.
Go beyond clinical sessions!
As therapists, we want to help as many people as we can.
But there’s only so many hours in a day!
How can we help more people without burning out?
Scale Your Income
With scalable offerings like online courses, repeatable events and workshops, and digital products, you can increase and diversify your income without taking on more clients. I’ll help with the design work, then you can keep making money after!
Share Your Expertise
Increase access to your expertise - no sliding scale or group work required - by creating quality psychoeducational resources. Together, I’ll help you design the perfect course, workshop, or digital product to help you make a powerful, positive impact on your whole community.
Save Your Time
Got a growing group practice? Don’t get bogged down with repetitive training and onboarding! I’ll help you create reusable, easy to follow resources that help you get your new hires or interns up to speed on your processes in no time.
Design Services
I offer a variety of services to support you in your therapy practice.
If you need something you don’t see here, feel free to reach out!
I’d love to chat about your goals and see how I can best support you.
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I can help you design live events that facilitate community and connection through group engagement and shared learning.
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I can help you design in-depth educational experiences through video, text, and audio. We’ll analyze your needs and goals, determine learning objectives, and build a structure for your content together.
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I can help you design workbooks, worksheets, resource lists, habit trackers, or whatever other digital products your community would benefit from.
Experienced Designer
& Counselor in Training
I’m a clinical mental health counseling master’s student with 8+ years of experience creating media and educational experiences, and I use my skills to support clinicians while I work through my own training.
Intentional Design
for Impactful Learning
I’ve worked with some great teams on a variety of projects. Check them out at the link below.
Testimonials
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Our meeting was more helpful and more energizing than anything I could have imagined. She had innovative, practical suggestions, and she spoke not only from her wealth of knowledge about online teaching resources, but also from her own experience as a student in online classes. I came away feeling highly enthusiastic and highly motivated.”
— Dr. Kathy Pfeiffer, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oakland University
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“Danielle is great! She is kind, helpful, and patient. She has great Moodle presentation ideas that help provide clarity for the students. My concerns were politely and professionally addressed. I felt so much better about my Moodle site after working with her.”
— Dr. Lynda Poly-Droulard, Assistant Professor of Practice in the School of Nursing at Oakland University
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“As a new faculty this past fall I reached out to Danielle for support with my online instruction. She was a consistently supportive resource throughout the semester, helping me navigate a platform I hadn't used previously and also serving as a great thought partner. I'm receiving feedback from my students about how the organization of the course helped them succeed, and Danielle helped make that possible.”
— Dr. Katie Sloan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Child Studies at Oakland University
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“Danielle does an excellent job suggesting ways to improve my course. She is organized and patient and always follows up with a re-cap and additional resources- I highly recommend working with her!”
— Faculty member at Oakland University
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“Every part of the process is easy with Danielle. I can easily make an appt with her, she is really knowledgeable and also skilled at teaching, which means I walk away understanding whatever I was unsure about before. As a brand new faculty my anxiety was lowered from the start here because I was working with Danielle. She helped me several times over my first semester and knowing I had that lifeline was really helpful.”
— Faculty member at Oakland University
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“Danielle is personable and professional as well as knowledgeable -- this facilitates the work incredibly. Very thorough and excellent communicator. Insightful as to the student experience as well.”
— Faculty member at Oakland University
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“She's a font of knowledge, a beacon in the darkness, a cold glass of water for a traveler through the desert. My own ignorance of Moodle was like compounding interest - each new failure to achieve what I was trying to accomplish multiplied my existing frustrations with the platform. And smooth operator that she is, Danielle stepped in to reassure me that simple and elegant solutions were ready at hand, and that the tool can be used to aid the user and not impair him. What's more, she volunteered far more of her time and attention than could reasonably have been expected. She was, in a word, amazing.”
— Faculty member at Oakland University
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“I was so grateful to have Danielle working on our e-Learning Instructional Design team at OU through the summer and fall of 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote and online teaching at OU had increased exponentially overnight. Danielle made key contributions to many essential projects during this time, such as creating help documents and videos for our supported tools, a sample online course for new students, and case study learning modules for our Quality Online Teaching Certification Course that we offer faculty. [Danielle is] reliable, proactive, a clear communicator, and motivated self-starter. She asks smart questions and isn't afraid to learn new things. I look forward to seeing where she will take her career next and any team would be privileged to have her.”
— Jess Tess-Navarro, former Instructional Designer at Oakland University
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“Danielle was integral in helping our new Instructional Design (ID) team cope with new demands of tasks and time. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, our overwhelmed IDs were able to give her professional tasks with minimal oversight. Her eye for detail and professionalism was that of someone who had been working in the field for years. Our instructional design team’s ability to create training documents, instructional videos and other media, online learning modules, learning interactions, and assess quality was all expedited because of our ability to ask Danielle to assist us. There was nothing we couldn’t ask her to do. … I’m confident [Danielle] can thrive in any environment. A rare but perfect blend of creative and productive… I give her the highest of recommendations.”
— Nic Bongers, PhD in Educational Leadership, MFA in Graphic Design, Senior Instructional Designer at Oakland University