Media, Presentations, & Publications

Media

• Interview as an expert in Washington Post Article, Calling All Reluctant Cooks: It's Time to Step it Up in the Kitchen

• Guest on podcast, The True Calling, by John Harrison, MA, LPCC. (2016)

• Guest on TV program, The Couple’s Corner, by Katie Lemieux, LMFT and Susan Block, LMFT to demonstrate Cooking with Couples, (2016)

Blogs

• Family Therapy and Involvement by Samantha Gordon

• Supporting a Loved One with an Eating Disorder by Samantha Gordon

• The Unseen Faces of Eating Disorders by Samantha Gordon

• Stressing Gives Me Stress by Samantha Gordon

• How to Tell Someone You have an Eating Disorder by Samantha Gordon

• What is Health? by Samantha Gordon

Dissertation

Nicole R. Gordon. 2019. Cooking with Couples: A Grounded Theory Study on the Relational Aspects Found in the Cooking Interactions of Couples. Doctoral dissertation. Nova Southeastern University. Retrieved from NSUWorks, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences – Department of Family Therapy. (46) https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dft_etd/46

Presentations

Solo Presentations, Nicole Gordon Vargas:

• Couples Therapy in Perinatal Care Training (2023)

• Eating Disorder Treatment in Marriage and Family Therapy (2022)

• Research Findings for Grounded Theory Study on Cooking with Couples (2019)

• Research Proposal for a Grounded Theory Study on Cooking with Couples (2018)

• “Utilization of Bowen Family Systems in Private Practice” at Nova Southeastern University, (2017)

• “A Bowen View of Cooking” at First International Conference of Bowen Family Systems, (2015)

• “Utilizing Genograms Clinically” at Nova Southeasthern University, (2015)

• “Isomorphism of Personal and Professional Systems: A Bowen Journey, a lecture on the similarities and differences of a Marriage and Family Therapist’s function in each of their personal and professional systems according to Bowen Family Systems Theory” at 36th Western Pennsylvania Family Center Conference, (2014)

• Lead presenter at IFTA World Congress on “I’m a Therapist, Not Your Therapist!” An interactive training workshop on the integration and separation of the professional and personal boundaries of Marriage and Family Therapists, with co-presenter Mishelle Ortiz, MS. (2013)

• Lead presenter for training workshop at IFTA World Congress on “Spicing it Up in the Therapy Room: Cooking and Couple’s Therapy with an Application of Gottman’s Theory” with co-presenter Giselle Bayard, MS., (2013)