About Nicholas
Nicholas Ashley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. He supports people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and LGBT-related concerns. He aims to make talking about hard things feel easier and less daunting.
He creates a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can name feelings and thoughts. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of him. Nicholas helps people take practical steps towards small, manageable change.
Background and approach
His work covers a wide range of concerns, including relationship strain, addiction, sleep problems, anger and low self-esteem. He also supports people dealing with parenting pressures, career stress, chronic health issues and neurodiversity-related challenges. This breadth lets him tailor conversations to each person's situation.
Nicholas draws on a mix of talking approaches to help clients build coping skills and clearer thinking. He pays attention to how attachment and past relationships shape current patterns. He also uses strategies to manage strong emotions and unhelpful thoughts in day-to-day life.
If someone is unsure where to begin, Nicholas listens first and helps set practical goals. He works collaboratively to choose methods that meet a client's priorities. The focus is on steady progress and learning useful skills for life outside sessions.
How his approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and teaches practical strategies to change behaviours that keep problems going. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps individuals recognise patterns they want to change.Nicholas will talk with each person about what feels most useful and comfortable. Together they decide which approaches to try first and adjust as therapy progresses. That collaborative process helps match methods to a person's goals and day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for a full conversation with visual cues, while phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text let people check in between longer sessions or use shorter, more frequent contacts. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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