About Nicola
Nicola Longson is a counsellor who uses a person-centred approach to help people manage stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. She works with adults who face trauma, grief, parenting strains and mood challenges, including depression and bipolar. Nicola aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk through what matters to them.
Nicola adapts sessions to each person. She listens first, then helps set goals together. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when helpful to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviours.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are introduced to settle the body and mind during times of overwhelm. Her background includes five years of professional experience in UK settings. That experience has involved supporting people after abuse and navigating the practical fallout of family problems and separation.
Nicola has worked with issues such as anger, intimacy-related concerns and sleep disruption. She also supports people facing career stress, parenting pressures and transitions like divorce or separation. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment worries, neurodiversity-related needs such as autism and Asperger Syndrome, and body image and self-esteem issues.
Nicola describes therapy as a collaborative process tailored to each person. Nicola holds BACP membership, which is a professional counsellor association in the United Kingdom. Sessions are offered in English and are available online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
If someone prefers practical, goal-focused work or a gentler listening-led style, Nicola adapts to meet those needs.
How Nicola’s approaches work online
Nicola uses client-centred work to place the person’s experience at the heart of therapy. That means sessions begin with careful listening and an open conversation about what matters most. This approach helps people who need space to process feelings such as grief, attachment worries or life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - CBT - is used to identify patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety or low mood and to test small behavioural changes. It can be useful for stress, sleeping difficulties, anger management and avoidance linked to phobias. Mindfulness Therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment calm during times of overwhelm.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Nicola will discuss goals, preferences and what feels comfortable, then choose or combine approaches collaboratively. This means the plan can be changed if something does not fit.
Online therapy with Nicola is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, so people can pick what fits their day. Video is good when visual connection matters, phone works well if bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins and messaging suits ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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