About Nels
Nels Rodwell is a counsellor with 25 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. She also offers coaching-style support to help build motivation and confidence.
Nels believes clients know their own stories best. She takes a person-centred stance and listens without judgement. Her aim is to support people as they make changes that feel right for them.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and emotionally-focused ways of working. In sessions she helps people recognise unhelpful patterns, try different ways of relating, and practise new coping skills. Nels has experience working with adults of different backgrounds and nationalities.
She combines talking therapy with creative methods and, in face-to-face work, integrates therapeutic massage alongside counselling when appropriate. She focuses on practical steps as well as understanding. Sessions often include skills to manage overwhelming feelings, clearer communication strategies, and ways to rebuild trust after loss or separation.
The goal is stronger self-awareness and better relationships with others.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current bonds and emotional responses. Online sessions use this lens to help people notice recurring patterns in relationships and to practise new ways of connecting and responding. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. In remote sessions CBT often involves setting simple tasks, testing unhelpful beliefs and using written worksheets or short behavioural experiments between meetings to build new habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try different methods together. That collaborative process helps decide whether attachment ideas, CBT or emotionally-focused techniques fit best for a person’s needs and circumstances.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversational work and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflection, and flexible contact across a busy day. These options give practical flexibility while keeping the focus on steady progress and clear therapeutic goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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