DOCTORAL RESEARCH

THE RESEARCH BEHIND THE PRACTICE

Every framework Dr. Nicole Brielle, CFP® teaches; beginning with the honest, unhurried work of Start Where You're Standing is built on a foundation of formal, rigorous research into trauma and restoration. Her doctoral work at Boston University is that foundation.

Life After Sexual Trauma and Incarceration: A Restorative Model for Wholeness for Women Who Suffered Sexual Violence

Dr. Nicole Brielle,

Boston University, 2020 · 167 pages

ProQuest No. 27739962

Why This Research Matters Here

Restoration does not happen in a single category of life at a time. The same principles that guide a person from trauma toward wholeness; honest acknowledgment of where one stands, structured and compassionate steps forward, and the rebuilding of agency, are the same principles Dr. Nicole applies to financial healing. Money is rarely just math. For many people, it carries the weight of history, safety, and identity.

This research is the scholarly foundation beneath a practitioner's framework; not a case study of any client, but the rigorous grounding for why this work is done the way it is done.

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