About Nicole
Nicole Barry is a counsellor with five years' experience who focuses on helping people move forward from stress, anxiety and relationship strain. She holds BACP accreditation and aims to make therapy a practical, supportive process. Nicole works online and uses a pace that suits each person.
She offers tailored sessions for issues such as low self-esteem, depression, grief and coping with life changes. Nicole also helps people facing addiction, intimacy concerns, parenting pressures and workplace stress.
Background and approach
Phobias are included among the concerns she can address. Her style is warm and non-judgemental. She encourages people to talk about what matters to them and to agree small, realistic steps to try between sessions.
Regular messaging check-ins are an option to keep progress on track. Nicole draws on several well-known therapeutic approaches to shape each person's plan. She adapts tools from cognitive work, acceptance-focused strategies and attachment-informed conversations to match the goals a person brings to therapy.
Sessions can be by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging depending on preference. International clients who speak English can arrange to work with her, and subscription arrangements mean sessions are scheduled and paid through a recurring plan that can be cancelled at any time. People who want a collaborative, down-to-earth counsellor may find her approach helpful.
She invites new contacts to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
How Nicole's approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and problems caused by avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behaviour and trying small changes to test what helps; it is often used for anxiety, depression and phobias. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand and change how they connect with others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicole discusses goals and preferences with each person and together they choose methods that suit the issue and the person's pace. She adapts techniques from different approaches so sessions remain collaborative and tailored to what the client wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for people who prefer writing, need quick check-ins, or find it easier to express themselves in words rather than speech. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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