I completed my graduate degree in Clinical Counseling at Johns Hopkins University where I graduated with Honors. My post graduate work included positions in the public and private sectors – I worked as a counselor at the Montgomery County CFW Counseling Center in Rockville, MD and as a school counselor for the Lyceé Rochambeau in Bethesda, MD. I am a Board Certified Clinical Counselor and a member of the American Counseling Association. I completed my undergraduate degree in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

Publications

I completed my graduate degree in Clinical Counseling at Johns HI have collaborated on the parenting book Adventures in Gentle Discipline by Hilary Flower, and have also written several articles for Mothering Magazine on positive discipline techniques. I have regularly appeared in The Boca Raton Observer as a therapist/expert weighing in on various relationship issues.

I was interviewed for an article that appeared in the November/December 2011 issue of Bethesda Magazine, the Philanthropy Issue and I appeared in the March issue of Bethesda Magazine in an article on parenting a special needs child. You can see that article here: http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/March-April-2012/The-Education-of-Nicol-Copeland/index.php?cparticle=5&siarticle=4#artanc

Most recently I have conducted parenting classes at Kidville, a children’s play center in Bethesda. To see the article that I wrote for that class, you can click here: http://www.kidvillebethesda.com/2012/03/fostering-self-esteem-in-kids.html. 

 I have also appeared in The Huffington Post in an article that was written based on a class that I conducted at Kidville in March, 2012: 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anjali-varma/tantrums_b_1383237.html?ref=parentsopkins 

University where I graduated with Honors. My post graduate work included positions in the public and private sectors – I worked as a counselor at the Montgomery County CFW Counseling Center in Rockville, MD and as a school counselor for the Lyceé Rochambeau in Bethesda, MD. I am a Board Certified Clinical Counselor and a member of the American Counseling Association. I completed my undergraduate degree in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

Community and Group Work

Aside from my regular private practice I currently conduct parenting groups at the Washington Hebrew Bindeman Center in Potomac where I also served on the discussion panel in the screening of the movie “The Race To Nowhere.” I also co-lead parenting and divorce support groups in my office in Bethesda, and at Kidville, a children’s play center.