Dr. Nikki Woller, Ph.D., LCSW

Dr. Nikki Woller is a Florida native. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the States of Florida and Vermont.  Dr. Woller is the President and Executive Director of the Pediatric Behavioral Health Associates and Family Visitation Professionals. Two social service agencies that drive the services that Dr. Woller and her Associates provide to the community. 

Dr. Woller completed her Bachelor's Degree in Social Work at Florida Atlantic University in 1999. She completed her Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work at Barry University in 2004. Dr. Woller received her Doctoral Degree in Psychology from Walden University 2016. 

Beginning her career as a 911 dispatcher, Dr. Woller has vast experience working with both children and adults in high crisis and high conflict situations. During this time, while working towards her degree in social work she founded the Association of Student Social Workers at Florida Atlantic University while also volunteering as a Guardian Ad Litem in Broward County. During her six years with the GAL program,  Dr. Woller advocated for the best interest of several children who were living within the Florida foster care system. Over the years, Dr. Woller developed a passion for protecting and advocating for children in need and in forensics. 

Once completing her Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Dr. Woller spent several years working as a Florida State Certified Protective Investigator investigating allegations of child abuse and neglect. This is where Dr. Woller saw the need to help children and their families heal from the intergenerational trauma that she was seeing as a contributing factor to the investigations that she conducted. This is were Dr. Woller also became certified as an expert witness in Court. 

In order to complete her clinical degree, Dr. Woller accepted a position as a law enforcement victim advocate for a local law enforcement agency in South Florida. During this time, Dr. Woller was extensively trained in first responder protocols, death notifications, victimization, crisis intervention, and domestic violence. She provided on scene crisis intervention, death notifications and case management to children and their families who were victims of violent crime, surviving family members of suicide and/or homicide. She became a member of the Palm Beach County Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team and Child Abuse Task Force. She was awarded many local and State awards for her work with both child abuse and domestic violence victims including the 2004 Governor's Peace at Home Award. 

Dr. Woller began her clinical career later that year when she graduated with her Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work. Since that time, Dr. Woller has worked with many different populations having clinical specific training in infant mental health, dependency, child abuse, child neglect, psychopharmacology,  human trafficking, trauma, divorce, animal assisted therapy, cultural diversity, parental alienation, the effects of divorce on children, children with severe behavioral issues, children and adults with mood disorders and forensics. 

Dr. Woller is trained and certified in TF-CBT, CPP, TBRI, CANS, FARS/CFARS, AniCare,  AniCare Child, My Life My Choice, Nurturing Parenting, MELD, Active Parenting, Forensic Social Work, Targeted Case Management, Targeted Case Management Supervision, Infant Mental Health - Level 2, Child Custody Evaluations, Social Investigations, a Family Court Guardian Ad Litem, and as a State of Florida Comprehensive Behavioral Health Assessor. 

She has expanded her expert witness testimony over the years to include issues involving child abuse and neglect, clinical social work, mental health counseling and techniques, risk assessment, parental alienation, high conflict divorce, complex parenting problems, infant mental health, bonding and attachment. She has testified for both privately and publicly funded attorneys, for both the plaintiff and the respondent in both Dependency and Family Court. She has worked on and testified in several high profile cases over the years including cases involving complex child maltreatment, parental alienation, severe injuries to a child and child death. 

Over the years, Dr. Woller has been an adjunct professor at several different Universities throughout the State of Florida. She teaches Cultural Diversity, Human Development, Introduction to Trauma, Advanced Clinical Practice,  General Psychology, Psychopathology, Specialized Clinical Assessments, Social Work Practice with Communities, Advanced Clinical Practice with Agencies, Lifespan Development, Clinical Practice with Major Mental Illness. She has taught numerous continuing education courses and parenting classes. 

Acquiring a Ph.D., in Psychology has allowed Dr. Woller to expand her Agency to include providing specialized mental health and forensic assessments to those who require such services. She has developed several research based therapeutic programs that are currently in use today including parenting, reunification and therapeutic supervised visitation programs. 

Dr. Woller continues to work within both of her Agencies aside her talented team of professionals where she remains a Qualified Supervisor for both Clinical Social Worker and Mental Health Counselors who require clinical supervision to become independently supervised. Her practice is also a Florida State University School of Social Work internship practicum site.  

Dr. Woller loves to spend her free time with her family, going to Disney Springs,  laughing and with her beloved animals on her adorable hobby farm. Her favorite color is purple, she loves to wear jeans to work, she loves all things sparkly, and us a huge fan of Star Wars and the Avengers. Her favorite saying....."the early bird can have the worms, because worms are gross and mornings are stupid."