Dr Nicole LePera, known online as The Holistic Psychologist, is a clinical psychologist who teaches people how to become their own healers. Her work blends clinical psychology with holistic principles, and her books, videos and SelfHealers community have reached millions of people around the world. [1]
Who is Dr Nicole LePera?
Dr Nicole LePera trained as a clinical psychologist and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. Alongside the latest science she draws on holistic practices, with the aim of supporting emotional and physical wellness together. [1]
What began as a personal mission to share self-healing tools on social media grew into one of the largest mental wellness communities online, now numbering over 12 million people. Her guiding idea is that she is “your guide, not your guru”: she offers a roadmap to self-awareness and emotional resilience so that people can become their own healers. [1]
Her first book, How to Do the Work (2021), became a #1 New York Times bestseller. It was followed by the workbook How to Meet Your Self (2022) and How to Be the Love You Seek (2023), which completes her “How To” trilogy. [2] [3] She also runs the SelfHealers Circle, a membership community with videos, workbooks and a book club. [1]
Her approach in brief
- Become your own healer. Healing is something you can actively take part in every day.
- Notice your patterns. Observe your habits, reactions and core beliefs with curiosity rather than judgement.
- Reparent your inner child. Give yourself the care, safety and consistency you may have missed.
- Work with the body. Breath, rest and movement help your nervous system feel safe.
- Break cycles. Small daily promises to yourself build new patterns over time.
At a glance
Known as: The Holistic Psychologist
Profession: Clinical psychologist
Community: SelfHealers Circle
Trilogy: How to Do the Work, How to Meet Your Self, How to Be the Love You Seek
Website: theholisticpsychologist.com
Good fit if
You want practical, everyday tools to understand your patterns, care for your inner child, set healthier boundaries and build calmer, more connected relationships.
Our take
A warm, accessible teacher who has helped millions of people take an active part in their own healing. Start with the short reparenting video on this page, then read How to Do the Work.
Dr Nicole LePera’s key ideas
Her work centres on a few practical ideas that you can start using today. Tap a card to read more.
Self-healing
At the heart of Dr LePera’s work is the belief that healing is possible for everyone, and that each person can play an active role in it. Rather than promising quick fixes, she offers tools for self-awareness and emotional resilience that people can practise day by day. [1]
Reparenting
Reparenting means learning to give yourself the care, attention and consistency you may not have received growing up. In practice this can look like keeping small promises to yourself, speaking to yourself kindly and making room for play and rest. Our guide to inner child healing explains the idea in depth, and the inner child healing hub gathers more resources.
The nervous system
Dr LePera teaches that the body holds our past experiences, and that a nervous system used to stress can keep us in survival mode. Simple practices such as breathwork, rest and gentle movement help create a felt sense of safety. Her book How to Be the Love You Seek shows how to create safety in your own body and mind before turning to relationships. [2]
Trauma bonds
In How to Be the Love You Seek, she explains how unmet needs from our earliest relationships can shape adult patterns, and shows a way out of trauma bonds towards relationships rooted in mutual respect and compassion. [2] Our guide to trauma bonds and leaving toxic relationships offers further support, and trauma recovery covers healing more broadly.
Boundaries
Boundaries feature throughout her teaching as a way to honour your own needs while staying connected to others. Learning to say no, and to notice when you are people-pleasing, is part of becoming your authentic self. Our guide to setting boundaries has practical scripts and steps.
Videos with Dr Nicole LePera
Hand-picked and checked one by one: short teachings from Dr LePera’s own channel, plus longer conversations.
Start here
From The Holistic Psychologist
Longer conversations
Articles about Dr Nicole LePera
Books by Dr Nicole LePera
Her “How To” trilogy has been read by over a million people worldwide. [4]
Buy How to Do the Work in your country: US · UK · Canada · Australia · India.
Community and free resources
Her website offers free journals and workbooks, a good way to try her approach before committing to a book or membership. [1]
What the Research Shows
Dr LePera’s emphasis on meeting yourself with kindness connects with a growing body of research on self-compassion.
- Self-compassion and wellbeing. A 2012 meta-analysis found a large association between higher self-compassion and lower levels of depression, anxiety and stress. [5]
Frequently asked questions
Who is Dr Nicole LePera?
A clinical psychologist known online as The Holistic Psychologist, who teaches self-healing tools to a community of millions.
What is The Holistic Psychologist?
The name of Dr LePera’s platform, which blends clinical psychology with holistic principles to help people become their own healers.
What is reparenting?
Learning to give yourself the care, safety and consistency you may have missed growing up, through small daily practices.
What books has Nicole LePera written?
How to Do the Work (2021), How to Meet Your Self (2022) and How to Be the Love You Seek (2023), plus Reparenting the Inner Child.
Which Nicole LePera book should I read first?
How to Do the Work, her first book and a #1 New York Times bestseller, is the natural starting point.
What is the SelfHealers Circle?
Her membership community, offering videos, workbooks and a book club.
Does Nicole LePera have free resources?
Yes. Her website offers free journals and workbooks, and her YouTube and Instagram channels share short teachings.
Sources
- The Holistic Psychologist: About Dr Nicole LePera
- HarperCollins: How to Be the Love You Seek
- HarperCollins: How to Meet Your Self
- The Holistic Psychologist: Books
- MacBeth and Gumley, Exploring compassion: a meta-analysis of the association between self-compassion and psychopathology, Clinical Psychology Review 2012
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