Melba Nicholson Sullivan

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Melba Nicholson Sullivan, PhD is a licensed clinical-community psychologist, executive coach, and performing artist. She is CEO of Freedom Flow Solutions, LLC, which reduces workplace stress, promotes employee well-being so that organizations (and their leaders) thrive. Doc Nic is a commitment to individual and collective power. She specializes in understanding how organizations promote human rights. Additional areas of expertise include stress and trauma, leadership and management, and professional development. 

Doc Nic has more than 30 years of mental health organizational leadership and training. She served as Director of Community Programs for The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Director of Training for the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture, and Clinical Director for Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. She earned her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studied psychology and theater arts at Howard University, and specialized in trauma and global mental health at Duke University and Harvard University respectively. In addition to her academic and theater background, Doc Nic facilitates contemplative practices that have been passed through generations of people of culture for millenia. 

Doc Nic co-creates experiences that tap into the wisdom of all participants. She has been featured in essence.com, Shondaland.com, FastCompany, and the New York Times. As a performing artist she writes music, sings and acts. As a “Chillpreneur,” she centers ease, rest, clarity and connection.

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