A clinical psychologist and group psychotherapist, Marcia Nickow, Psy.D, CADC, CGP, designed and implemented an intensive group psychotherapy program in her downtown Chicago private practice at Working Sobriety Trauma and Addiction Recovery Center. Marcia leads 15 weekly ongoing process groups—men’s, women’s, multigender, professionals, artists/writers and clinical supervision groups; she also co-leads two couples groups. Her clinical interests include multi-generational recovery from addiction and developmental trauma; posttraumatic healing and thriving after community trauma; intergenerational and historical legacies of trauma and resilience; pedagogies of oppression; and anti-racist organizational transformation.

Marcia serves as group facilitator and consultant at F.A.C.E. Race Consulting LLC and as senior organizational and clinical advisor at SunCloud Health Residential and Outpatient Treatment Center. She conducts staff trainings, workshops and institutes at Haymarket Center and SunCloud. She has presented nationally and internationally on trauma (complex, intergenerational, historical, collective); the full spectrum of addictions and eating disorders; de-colonizing approaches to treatment; group dynamics and group processes; and more recently, on collective trauma including sequelae of the COVID-19 and racial violence pandemics.