About Nikki Tierney

Hazlet Welcomes New Alliance Coordinator

As the new Coordinator of the Hazlet's Alliance program, Nicole "Nikki" Tierney plans to launch impactful efforts to improve public health. 

Working with schools, the police department and Hazlet's Hope Network, Tierney will provide drug and alcohol prevention programs to children in grades K-12, support outreach efforts for parents and develop community awareness programs. 

Public health, including mental health, has become especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Tierney has a strong background in counseling. She holds an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in Addiction Studies. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor. 

She is employed at CPC Behavioral Healthcare as a Clinician and Peer Recovery Specialist and works with children as an intensive in-community clinician. She also has her own practice, Hope-Fullness Counseling, Prevention, and Education.  

Tierney is also a member of the Monmouth County inaugural Crisis Intervention Team and volunteers on the steering committee of Long Branch HEARS, the advisory board of Prevention Coalition of Monmouth County, and is also a member of the Monmouth County Board of Addiction.

Tierney has made it her mission to decrease stigma and barriers to treatment for mental health and substance use disorders. She is candid about her personal journey as someone who once struggled with opioid use disorder, lost her license to practice law, and experienced suicidal thoughts. But she sought treatment and has moved forward from previous negative experiences. She has been in sustained remission from opioid use disorder for over a decade. 

A resident of Belford, she is the mother of 22-year-old triplets and an 19-year-old.