About Nicola
Nicola Channing is a counsellor who uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. She has eight years of experience working with people on self-esteem, motivation and coping with life changes. Nicola is based in the United Kingdom and sees clients in English, including those outside the UK.
Nicola aims to build an open, non-judgemental space where people can talk through what matters to them.
Background and approach
She focuses on practical steps as well as listening, so sessions can include thinking about daily routines, coping strategies and small changes to try between meetings. Nicola pays attention to how relationships and family dynamics affect emotional wellbeing. Her work covers a range of concerns such as depression, anger, addictions and intimacy-related issues.
She also supports people dealing with parenting pressures, career difficulties, abandonment and attachment issues. Nicola is familiar with matters linked to adoption and foster care, ageing and caregiver stress. Sessions may address personality-related struggles like avoidant or dependent patterns, issues around communication and control, and body image or codependency.
Nicola helps people identify patterns and experiment with different ways of relating to themselves and others. People who want practical guidance alongside emotional support often choose Nicola. She encourages small, manageable goals and reviews progress each session.
To begin, clients use the site process to match and then schedule appointments.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Nicola uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clearer thinking. One common approach involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and experimenting with alternative ways of responding; this helps with anxiety, low mood and self-esteem issues. Another approach emphasises behaviour and routine changes - breaking tasks into small steps and building habits that reduce stress and improve mood. These methods suit people who want concrete tools to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicola will collaborate with each person to identify which techniques fit their needs, goals and preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust the focus as therapy progresses, so the plan changes if something isn’t working.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for brief check-ins or when a shorter, more frequent touchpoint helps. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family life and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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