Nicole Herschenhous is a perinatal psychiatrist at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a psychiatrist in private practice, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine, and a Lecturer, Part Time, on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.  She received her medical degree from Brown University in 2007, and then completed her Adult Psychiatry Residency at Cambridge Health Alliance through Harvard Medical School in 2011, and a fellowship in psychosocial oncology and psychosomatic medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute through Harvard Medical School in 2012.  In Halifax, she has served as the medical director of the Mental Health Short Stay Unit, a general inpatient psychiatrist, and a Recovery & Integration psychiatrist.  

She completed her IFS Level 1 training in 2010, Level 2 in 2011, and Level 3 in 2017, and has served as a program assistant for five IFS trainings.  She is IFS certified, and is also an IFS-I Approved Clinical Consultant.  

Nicole has also had a mindfulness practice since 2003, has sat dozens of 10-day retreats, a 1-month retreat, and a 3-month retreat, and was a resident at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center from 2009-2011.  She has been trained as an MBSR teacher since 2004, and an MBCT teacher since 2010.  She is one of the founders and leaders of the Dalhousie Mindfulness in Medicine Program for medical students, and she developed and teaches the mindfulness curriculum for Dalhousie psychiatry residents.  She served as the psychotherapy coordinator for the Dalhousie Psychiatry Residency Program from 2016-2022.  She received the Dalhousie Psychiatry Educator of the Year award in 2022 for work that featured educational initiatives on mindfulness and compassion, and received a Dalhousie Psychiatry Leadership award in 2023 for her work in education.