About Nina Belle

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #159963

Supervised by Jerry Saslow, LMFT #50576

My Experience

My clinical work has been profoundly shaped by over 7 years of experience supporting survivors of sexual assault, including extensive work within crisis and trauma-focused settings. This work has given me deep expertise in trauma, dissociation, embodiment, relational healing, and the nuanced ways people learn to survive overwhelming experiences. It has also reinforced my belief in the extraordinary capacity for healing that emerges when people are met with attunement, care, and deep respect for their autonomy.

In addition to trauma work, I have significant experience working with teenagers and families, helping clients navigate identity development, emotional regulation, relational conflict, and the complexity of belonging in today’s world.

Alongside my clinical practice, I facilitate workshops and psychoeducational groups focused on sexuality, embodiment, desire, boundaries, and relational dynamics. I am passionate about creating spaces where conversations around sexuality can move beyond shame, silence, and performance into greater honesty, agency, and self-trust.

My Values

I believe that healing is both personal and collective.

The struggles we carry are often shaped by larger systems: patriarchy, colonialism, cultural expectations, and messages about who we are allowed to be. My therapy practice is anti-racist, LGBTQIA affirming, sex positive and feminist.

My Therapy Style

I use a number of different therapeutic modalities, tailored to each client’s unique needs and therapeutic goals, including but not limited to: Jungian, Attachment Focused, and Somatic.

Regardless of modality, my therapeutic lens is strengths-based, community-minded, and goals-centered. I aim to create a safe, completely non-judgmental and radically accepting environment in which clients can approach their healing in a truly holistic and sustainable manner.

My approach is honest, warm, directive and authentic. In my work with clients, we walk side by side through the work of actively confronting, challenging and overcoming their most persistent problem narratives, self-limiting beliefs and persistent self-destructive behaviors. What client’s can expect is that we’ll pay attention to the language of the body, the emotional undercurrents, the residual impacts of childhood attachments, and the parts of them that may have been hidden, exiled, or misunderstood.

A Bit About Me, Personally

Prior to working in mental health, I attended Stanford University, where I earned a degree in Engineering while competing as a Division I athlete. My background in both high-level academics and athletics deeply shaped the way I understand people, achievement, and the hidden emotional costs of constantly performing.

Those experiences taught me how easily self-worth can become tied to productivity, perfectionism, and external success. As a clinician, they allow me to understand from the inside what it feels like to live in environments that reward pushing past your limits while losing connection to yourself in the process.

Over time, I’ve had to find my way back to a more intuitive, embodied way of being. Nature, movement, and creativity became essential parts of that journey. They are the ways I reconnect with myself and return to a grounded, aligned internal place. This has and continues to shape the way I approach therapy. I believe healing happens not only through insight, but through cultivating a life that allows us to feel more present, connected, and fully ourselves.

Contact me

Whether it is to book a free 15 minute consultation, to inquire about scheduling a workshop, or to request a speaking engagement, I would love to hear from you!