Brandi Nichols Vadis
MA, BSN, LMFT #122625

Brandi has spent the last twenty years in the healthcare industry, rising through the ranks and
learning along the way. Somewhere in that journey, she recognized a painful truth: separating
mental health from the medical model wasn't just hurting patients — it was hurting the
healthcare workers caring for them. That realization set her on a unique path, one that began with
bringing healing to herself before turning to bring it to others.

Brandi's clinical background includes supporting trauma survivors in an intensive outpatient
treatment program and two years immersed in learning about death and dying. She also holds
certification in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a trauma modality
that offers a holistic alternative to talk therapy for processing stressful experiences.
Over the past five years, Brandi has coached healthcare workers through grief, burnout, and
compassion fatigue, creating space for a compassionate release of the stress and trauma stored in
the body. Letting go of these experiences strengthens their connection to themselves and others,
bringing clarity to their passion and purpose.

She has led trainings on emotion regulation, conflict resolution, and effective communication,
and has created and facilitated support groups and trainings on grief, chronic pain, imposter
syndrome, and burnout. Brandi also served as adjunct faculty in the MACC program at Point
Loma Nazarene University, bringing her clinical and lived experience into the classroom to help
train the next generation of counselors.

Brandi has taken this depth of experience and knowledge to found Hope for Healers, a nonprofit
advocating for meaningful mental health support for the healthcare workforce.