Nicole is in the fourth year of her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her primary research interests is the relationship between mental fatigue and perceived cognitive impairment in individuals with insomnia. For her Master’s research, Nicole explored cognitive mechanisms of fatigue, such as the interaction between task difficulty and self-appraisals of cognitive resources. For her dissertation, Nicole continues to investigate the role of cognitive mechanisms of fatigue in people with insomnia, including automatic thoughts and global beliefs. In addition to her dissertation, Nicole is involved in research in the SAD Lab investigating and disseminating a new therapeutic sleep app for adolescents and young adults called Doze, and she has served as a therapist and assessor for various clinical trials of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia.​

Nicole is currently completing her predoctoral internship at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. In the fall she will be joining the Sleep Health and Insomnia Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Stanford University as a Clinical Postdoctoral Fellow.

Before joining the SAD Lab, Nicole received an Honours BSc from Queen’s University in Psychology and Life Sciences, where she studied the effect of comorbid bipolar disorder and obstructive sleep apnea on neurocognition, functional capacity, and health-related quality of life.