Dr. Nicole Thomas is a double board-certified psychiatrist, trained in treating children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Thomas joined Bonnie Brae in December of 2025. She hopes to use her experiences working in diverse environments and clinical settings to broaden the depth and breadth of the psychiatric services here at Bonnie Brae. With her team of Advanced Practice Nurses, she plans to work closely with patients, families, schools, and other team members to create comprehensive and multi-disciplinary treatment plans customized to each youth’s needs.
Prior to joining Bonnie Brae, Dr. Thomas spent years working at Morristown Medical Center, where she served as the Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist for the New Jersey Pediatric Collaborative at the Atlantic HUBs and the Medical Director for Student Education. She began her career leading the Psychiatric Emergency Services team at University Hospital, in Newark, NJ, where she specialized in crisis intervention. She later became the Assistant Program Director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, where she played an integral role in supervision, teaching, and curriculum development for medical students, residents, and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellows.
She earned her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from Cornell University and her M.D. from the University of Medical and Dentistry of New Jersey –New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Thomas completed her Psychiatry Residency at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, where she also served as the Chief Resident. She then pursued a Child & Adolescent Fellowship at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Training Program of Cornell and Columbia Universities. Dr. Thomas has presented nationally at the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Annual Meetings. She has been published in Academic Psychiatry, Psychiatric Times, and Psychosomatics. In 2024, she became a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and continues to be a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
