2020 Class Members

Share & Bookmark, Press Enter to show all options, press Tab go to next option
Print

ODonnell, Nikki

Nikki ODonnell
  • Divisions:2020 Class Members
  • Age37

Psychologist
Viewpoint Psychology and Wellness

Nikki O'Donnell is passionate, energetic and on a mission to crush the mental health stigma and empower our youth to become the movers, shakers and world changers.

She is a Master's Level Psychologist with over 15 years of clinical experience working with people of all ages. She also is an outpatient therapist at Viewpoint Psychology & Wellness in Commerce Township.

After earning a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Albion College, O'Donnell earned her Master's Degree in Clinical and Humanistic Psychology from the Michigan School of Professional Psychology. While pursuing her degrees, Nikki gained extensive clinical experience in both private practice and inpatient psychiatric settings where she helped teens struggling with self-harming behavior, children with autism, athletes, and emotionally impaired children.

She has received specialized training to become a PTSD Trauma specialist, a personal fitness trainer and a Love and Logic Parent Training Instructor. O'Donnell runs a teen group therapy program at West Bloomfield High School, has been instrumental in the development of Walled Lake Western High School's student "Zen Den."

She serves as a "behavioral health expert" for both Channel 7 and Channel 4 news in Detroit and maintains a close relationship with the Oakland Community College Early College Program where she regularly presents mental health and wellness focused topics for students.

O'Donnell is a founding instructor and creator of the HFHS "Let's Get Healthy" family wellness program, creator of the K-2 "Worry Warriors" childhood anxiety management program and more recently, has been building a task force of wellness and health professionals to create the first ever teen Vaping Cessation program.

She lives in Walled Lake with her husband and two children.

The information presented here was accurate as of January 1, 2020.

Return to full list >>