MARJORIE NICHOLS, LCSW

Ms. Nichols is a licensed clinical social worker and has provided behavioral health care for over 30 years.  In her capacity as an employee assistance counselor, corporate director of EAP systems, director of provider networks, she has written and facilitated seminars and workshops for numerous organizations.  She went on to establish her own consulting firm working with group practices, business and medical organizations, and behavioral health organizations.  Marjorie Nichols designed and implemented Southwest Airlines recurrent training for the Emergency Reponse Team.

 

Ms. Nichols graduated from the Eastern Illinois University with an undergraduate major in

Psychology and health education.  She holds a master’s degree in Social Work from University of Illinois and has served as a field instructor for the University of Texas at Arlington for social work interns.  Marjorie was invited to be one of 10 social workers to take part in a national social work and consumer’s dialogue in Washington DC by SAMHSA and NASW.  She speaks at many professional national conferences; was the American Counseling Association speaker on managed care and EAP training and has written over 50 training programs for private industry as well as Hazelden, Human Affairs International, CIGNA, Preferred Health Care (now ValueOptions), etc.

 

 Ms. Nichols has provided specialty training for Southwest Airlines in the area of Critical Incidents for their Family Assistance Committee.  Additionally, she was involved in the Critical Incident Debriefings for American Airlines following September 11th and served as a volunteer for the American Red Cross providing crisis counseling in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  

 

Ms. Nichols recently developed seminars on "Personal Branding", "Resiliency", "Emotional Intelligence" and facilitated these and other trainings for Bank of America.  In 2014 provided a day-long retreat for WaterTower Theatre on "Effective Communication", "Emotional Intelligence", and "Stress Management".  She brings her expertise as a psychotherapist and her business consultant skills to her seminars.

 

Seminars offered:                                                 

Assertiveness

Balancing work and life

Building relationships at work

Conflict Management

Coaching Skills

Changing Lives, Changing habits

Critical Incident Debriefings

Communication Skills

Depression

Diversity

Domestic Violence

Drug free Workplace

Grief

Improving Performance through Constructive Feedback

Intergenerational Team Building

Procrastination

Planning and Prioritizing

Personal Guide to Managing Change

Preventing Workplace Burnout

Sexual Harassment

Stress management / Coping with Change

Surviving organizational change

Time of Change: Taking care of yourself

Violence in the Workplace

Picture taken at the retreat for WaterTower Theatre.

Partial list of client companies

AT&T

Verizon

Dell

Department of Labor

Texas Department of Human Services

American Airlines

GTE-SW

NCH

Patton Boggs

Dallas Morning News

Dun and Bradstreet

Breckenridge Hospital

Central IL School Districts

Southwest Airlines

UPS

Gladerma Labs

Abbott Corporate

Trammel Crow

State Farm Insurance Companies

Southland Companies

Southwest Airlines

DISD

PISD

J.P.Morgan Chase

Printpack

INC

Larson Julh

USI

Matria Healthcare

Bank of American

Citi-Corporate

Texas Instruments

Comerica,

Federated Mutual Insurance

HEALTHvisions, Inc.

Accenture

Celanese

IBM

C.H. Robinson

GennX

Boston Consulting Group,

Raytheon

Comdata

Sterling Software