About Nika
Nika Bowens is a counsellor who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage anxiety, stress and life changes. She draws on eight years of experience supporting people through depression, trauma, low self-esteem and relationship difficulties. Nika works with clients who are exploring identity, coping with chronic health issues, or navigating grief and losses.
Nika’s way of working is calm and collaborative. She aims to create a space where thoughts and feelings can be talked about without judgement.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on noticing patterns, testing small changes, and building steady coping skills that fit everyday life. Her practice often blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive methods to shift unhelpful thinking and increase valued action. Attachment-based thinking also informs her work when people want to understand relationship patterns and emotional responses.
The result is a flexible mix tailored to each person’s needs. Nika has particular experience with neurodivergent clients, including people with ADHD and autism, and with those living across cultures. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and complex grief.
This background informs a gentle, paced approach to change. Reaching out can feel hard, and Nika aims to make the first steps simple and straightforward. She invites people to work at a pace that suits them and to focus on goals that matter in their everyday lives.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being led by them. It focuses on values and small, useful actions to build a more meaningful life and is often helpful for anxiety, depression and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It offers practical exercises and experiments that reduce unhelpful thinking and improve daily coping with stress and low mood.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and closeness in relationships. It can help people understand intimacy difficulties, patterns of avoidance, or repeated conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together choose or adapt methods that suit them. This happens in a collaborative way so techniques feel relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people see non-verbal cues and hold fuller conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, written check-ins and ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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