About Nancy
Nancy Cowling welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, low mood, anxiety or relationship strain. She introduces herself plainly and listens first, helping clients work out what matters most to them. Nancy uses a gentle, practical style to make the first steps feel manageable.
Nancy has seven years of experience in the UK and holds BACP registration, which signals adherence to a professional code of practice. She has helped people facing trauma and abuse, addictions, grief and changes at work or in personal life.
How Nancy works
Areas she often addresses include self-esteem, motivation, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger and intimacy-related worries. Sessions focus on identifying small, useful changes clients can try between meetings. Nancy treats clients as experts in their own lives and builds on existing strengths.
Conversations are straightforward and aimed at making progress that fits each person’s pace and needs. She also works with more specific concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, body image, codependency and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. Other focuses include aging and geriatric matters, cancer-related adjustment and dissociation when it is relevant to a person’s story.
Nancy offers practical support for career stress, compassion fatigue and chronic worry. She helps people plan for life transitions and recover from domestic violence or other harmful relationships. Her approach combines clear problem-solving with steady emotional support.
What Nancy works with
The areas below are the ones Nancy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Many people benefit from evidence-based techniques that focus on thoughts, behaviours and emotional regulation. Cognitive approaches help people notice and test unhelpful thinking patterns and try different responses in day-to-day life; these methods can be useful for anxiety, low mood and self-esteem issues. Behavioural strategies concentrate on small, repeatable changes such as sleep routines, activity planning and coping exercises to reduce symptoms like poor sleep, worry or avoidance. trauma-informed ways of working aim to create a steady, paced process that helps people feel safer and regain control after distressing experiences.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs and pace. Together they will review progress and adapt techniques as things change so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls suit deeper, face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection between calls. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments and make attendance easier when getting to an office is difficult.
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