Marco Nozicka, LCSW

Marco Nozicka is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with four decades of experience helping individuals and couples navigate life changes, relationship challenges, career transitions, grief, and a wide range of emotional concerns. He trained as a professional coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and is a certified hypnotherapist through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists (IACT). A graduate of the Jane Adams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois, Chicago Campus, he also completed a year of post-graduate study with Dr. Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., an expert in family therapy.

He has practiced psychotherapy across diverse cultural settings including the Caribbean region and multiple areas of the United States, bringing a multicultural perspective to his work. Marco integrates solution-focused techniques, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), cognitive approaches, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and hypnotherapy when appropriate, and he draws on his background as a professional coach and former international executive to support career and performance goals.

As a certified mediation and mindfulness facilitator and a meditation teacher for over thirty years, he emphasizes practical, goal-oriented strategies alongside mind-body practices. Marco applies hypnotherapy for habit and behavioral change, including weight management, smoking cessation, anxiety reduction, and other unproductive patterns. Outside of his clinical work, he is a long-distance cyclist, health enthusiast, and performing musician, and he weaves creative, comprehensive mind-body approaches into his therapeutic practice.