Nick Fadoir

I've spent over six years working at the VA, serving Veterans and first responders across a range of clinical needs. I understand military culture, the specific ways combat and service-related trauma show up, and the barriers that often keep Veterans from seeking help. This isn't a population I serve occasionally, it's the foundation of my clinical experience. I bring that same depth of understanding to my private practice work with Veterans across Florida and PSYPACT states.

Trauma is at the center of my clinical work. I specialize in PTSD and complex trauma in adults, with extensive experience treating combat trauma, sexual trauma, childhood abuse, and chronic traumatic stress. I work from the understanding that trauma symptoms are survival responses, not signs of weakness. Therapy focuses on helping your nervous system build new evidence that safety is possible, at a pace that feels manageable rather than overwhelming.

I specialize in substance use and addictive behaviors, with daily clinical experience treating addiction at the VA. My approach focuses on understanding what substances are doing for you — the relief, escape, or numbness they provide — rather than simply eliminating them. We work to address the pain underneath while building something more sustainable. I work with alcohol, cannabis, opioids, stimulants, and behavioral patterns like gambling or compulsive behaviors.

What looks like a bad habit or lack of willpower is often an emotion that never got fully felt. EFT works by helping clients slow down and actually meet the emotional experience underneath their patterns (i.e., the loneliness, shame, or fear that substances or other behaviors have been covering). When those emotions get contacted rather than managed, something shifts at the root. Clients don't just change their behavior; they change their relationship with the feelings that were driving it.

Most people who struggle with trauma or substances have spent years finding ways to not feel what's underneath. AEDP works by gently reversing that, helping clients actually encounter the emotions they've been avoiding, in a relationship that feels safe enough to make that possible. The change isn't intellectual. It happens when the experience itself shifts, when someone feels something they've been running from and discovers they can survive it. That's where lasting change comes from.

ACT helps clients develop a different relationship with their inner experience , the urges, the shame, the painful thoughts that usually drive the bus. The goal isn't to get rid of those things. It's to be able to feel them without automatically doing what they say. But ACT goes a step further, asking what kind of life you actually want to be building. When you're not spending all your energy managing or escaping what's inside, there's room to move toward the things that genuinely matter to you.