About Nicola
Nicola Ellis is a counsellor who combines academic training with six years of practice. She holds a BA (Hons) in Person-Centred Counselling and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, and uses that background to shape straightforward, compassionate care. Nicola offers sessions online and by phone, as well as live chat and text messaging, so people can choose what works for them.
Her style is calm and client-centred. She listens first and follows the pace a person sets.
Background and approach
Nicola helps people talk through anxiety, low mood, grief and relationship worries in simple, practical ways. Nicola draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. She also uses client-centred methods to keep sessions focused on the person’s priorities.
Mindfulness techniques are introduced when they suit a client’s goals and can help with stress and sleep. She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, ADHD, addictions, self-esteem, parenting strain, and bereavement. Additional areas include body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and relationship commitment issues.
Nicola adapts her approach to each person rather than following a rigid method. Sessions are offered in English and Nicola accepts international clients. Costs vary depending on location and the subscription model used; subscriptions can be cancelled at any time.
To start, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled to suit both the client and therapist.
Working with attachment and client-centred approaches online
Nicola uses attachment-based ideas to help people notice how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach looks at connections and trust, and can be useful for understanding relationship worries, abandonment issues and attachment concerns.She also works in a client-centred way, which means sessions focus on the person's priorities and pace. That method emphasises listening, empathy and helping people find their own solutions for issues such as anxiety, low mood or coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Nicola will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and will suggest techniques that fit. The choice of methods is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video works well for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone calls are a simpler option if bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit counselling into busy lives and to keep continuity when travel or location is an issue.
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What this therapist works with
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
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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