Biography

Kara Niccum, M.S., LMFT, LADC is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist and Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor in Stillwater, OK. Kara’s a small-town home-grown Oklahoman. She earned a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Oklahoma State University (OSU) in 2007 and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from OSU in 2003. She has worked for OSU since 2008, specializing in treating college students with substance use disorders, and has maintained a part-time private practice since 2013. Kara clearly loves OSU, but will work with people who don’t “bleed orange!” She completed EMDR Therapy Training in 2014, earned certification in 2018, became an Approved Consultant in 2020, and ICM Adjunct Faculty in 2021. Her special interest areas are EMDR and addiction, sexual assault, first responders, and cultivating the therapeutic relationship necessary to support the depth of work inherent in EMDR. Kara has worked in inpatient and outpatient alcohol and drug treatment facilities, a marriage and family therapy clinic, and in the field of domestic violence. Kara is naturally inquisitive (aka nosy), empathic, and slightly sarcastic. She’s a big fan of self-care! She enjoys reading, napping, watching reality TV on Bravo (cringe), spending time outside (preferably on a beach in a hammock), watching her two kiddos do things they love, practicing yoga, people watching, and attending concerts. She loves to travel, but is always ready to come home. Kara considers herself lucky to have found a career that suits her well, and even luckier to have found EMDR.