About Nicola
Nicola Murray is a counsellor with six years' experience offering support for stress, anxiety and a wide range of life challenges. She is a BACP member and focuses on helping people manage emotions, understand unhelpful patterns, and make practical changes. Nicola writes plainly and keeps sessions focused on what matters to each person.
Her approach is collaborative. She begins by listening to what feels most urgent and then suggests ways to practise new skills between sessions.
Background and approach
Common areas she helps with include relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, anger, addiction-related issues, grief and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse and self-esteem struggles. Nicola draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help spot and change thinking and behaviour patterns.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take small, value-led steps. Attachment-based work helps when trust, abandonment or connection issues are central. In sessions she aims for clear, practical steps and simple exercises people can use day to day.
Conversations are straightforward and focused on real-life problems rather than jargon. Nicola can offer different formats to suit how someone prefers to communicate. She works with LGBT concerns, parenting stress, sleep and eating issues, career pressures and compassion fatigue among other areas.
Nicola accepts international clients and runs sessions from the United Kingdom.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Nicola commonly uses cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and attachment-based ideas in online work. Cognitive behavioural therapy helps people identify patterns of thinking and behaviour and try small experiments to change them; it can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating problems. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on values and gentle steps toward what matters most, which helps when people feel stuck or avoidant. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationship patterns affect trust and closeness, which can help with intimacy and abandonment concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Nicola will listen to circumstances, goals and preferences and suggest what might fit best. She adapts methods over time and collaborates on homework and short exercises so the approach remains practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone is handy when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit quick check-ins or shorter tasks. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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