Zadok Nampala, MSW, LICSW

Zadok Nampala is a Board of Licensed Clinical Social Workers having earned his Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Iowa in Iowa city. He has experience includes working with children, adolescents, adults, families, and groups in community based as well as inpatient and outpatient treatment settings. Zadok who also goes by Z has done extensive work with refugees and immigrants using his language skills providing services to immigrants from Eastern and Central African and South America. Prior to joining Open Cities, Z focused on serving children/ adolescents and their families through NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center by providing school and community-based therapy. As a clinician, I embrace a strengths-based perspective, and I borrow from many different theory bases for psychotherapy in aiming to understand and meet the individual needs of each person and of each family. These theories include cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused, reality-based, mindfulness-based and family systems theories. Techniques that I utilize may include dialogue, psycho education, relaxation, re-framing of negative thoughts, positive decision-making, role-play, mindfulness, or writing/art exercises.