Referral Biography
Dr. Nicole Medina-Salvatore, PsyD is the founder and owner of Valor Psychological Services and Valor Telehealth. She is passionate about her work and loves her clients deeply. She believes in radical acceptance of all people and is an LGBTQ+ affirmative therapist who specializes in trauma, veterans, and multicultural psychology. As a mother of two young girls, she understands many of the issues that families face and she strives to be a caring, upfront, and empathic tester and therapist.
Dr. Salvatore's psychological frame is attachment-based and feminist in nature. She is well versed in many evidence based practices, with an emphasis in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and family therapy. She is certified in Functional Family Therapy (FFT) , Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), and she is a certified trauma therapist with training in EMDR.
Her specialties include suicidal ideation, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), adolescent teenage girls, anxiety, depression, Autism Spectrum Disorder, attachment issues, religious issues, women's issues, and parenting skills. In addition to working for Valor, she is a full time therapist at Alpine Academy, a therapeutic boarding school for teens. She also works as a consultant and assessor part time for ClearView Psychological Services.
Dr. Medina graduated from Azusa Pacific University ('08) with Honors with a major in Psychology and minor in Biblical Studies. She earned her Master's degree ('13) and her PsyD ('15) from Antioch University New England. Her research during graduate school centered on Asian Americans, family therapy, and women's issues. She completed her APA predoctoral internship ('14) at Western Youth Services in Orange County, CA where she was also trained on the ADOS-2. Her APA postdoctoral residency was at Kaiser Antioch in Antioch, CA which emphasized treating adolescents and young adults who were at risk for hospitalization or who had just been released from the hospital for suicide attempts. She has been a licensed clinical psychologist in Utah since December 2016.
Since moving to Utah, she has been working with suicidal and personality disordered adults and teens in residential and community mental health settings, as well as providing psychological testing. In her free time she enjoys playing with her daughters and 3 soon to be step-children, spending time with friends, and smothering her three cats, Marshmallow, Minnow and Chococat, with love and affection.
Utah Psychological Association