Staci McNicholl
LCSW
Staci is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nearly 25 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, trauma, depression, eating disorders, body image, and family/marriage concerns, and has a passion for family court, custody, and mediation issues.
Staci is a Certified Mediator through the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) for Champaign County (Sixth Judicial District). She completed training as a Parent Coordinator through the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), where she is also a member. Staci provides solution-focused mediation services aimed at minimizing time and expenses in court and empowering parents to focus on healthy communication and decision-making post separation or divorce. Her focus is child-centered and child-focused.
Staci is also a Certified Nutrition and Wellness Consultant through AFPA, enabling comprehensive, up-to-date treatment for clients with disordered eating by integrating nutrition and wellness into their care. Along with her husband RJ, she is certified by the Family Dynamics Institute as a Dynamic Marriage Facilitator.
Staci works within a cognitive-behavioral, strengths-based, relational model. She incorporates proven therapy techniques and strategies—assignments, metaphors, examples, real-life practice—as well as DBT, ACT, and Cognitive Remediation Therapy to support clients with unique or complex issues.
Message from Staci
“Healthy relationships, children, parenting, and families are my passion. In addition to having a set of 20-year-old twins and 16-year-old, my husband and I also have a toddler. This, together with my almost 25 years in practice and specialized certifications, allows me to work alongside you on life stressors such as family court, custody, and family/divorce mediation/parent coordination concerns as well as the issues of anxiety, trauma, depression, eating disorders, body image, and family/marriage issues. I have a passion for family court, custody, and mediation issues, with the goal of healthy communication, parenting, and decision-making post separation or divorce. My emphasis is child-focused and child-centered. Together we will implement strategies that focus on setting boundaries, developing interpersonal skills, and clarifying communication patterns in order to create a healthy path forward.”
