About Nicholas
Nicholas Mistiades Dunn offers a steady, practical counselling style built on 25 years of professional experience. He focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, grief and relationship strain. Nicholas aims to make the first step into therapy less daunting by listening carefully and responding plainly.
He creates a calm space where people can talk through difficult feelings without judgement. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with ideas for coping and ways to try things between meetings.
How Nicholas works
The emphasis is on small, practical changes that can ease daily pressures. Nicholas has worked across long careers in counselling, supervision and training, so he brings a wide view to common life challenges. That background helps when people are dealing with loss, addiction, eating concerns or complex emotional patterns like attachment and control issues.
He also supports people facing career stress, compassion fatigue, parenting strain and the fallout of trauma or abuse. His approach includes attention to neurodiversity and conditions such as ADHD and autism where relevant to a person's experience. Nicholas holds BACP and NCPS credentials, which reflect recognised professional bodies in the UK.
He works in English and provides sessions by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect people to his practice and scheduling is arranged once that step is complete.
What Nicholas works with
The areas below are the ones Nicholas selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| 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 support
Nicholas uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach is problem-focused work that identifies patterns causing distress and builds clear steps to reduce stress and anxiety. This helps with day-to-day coping, overwhelm and work-related pressure.Another approach emphasises processing loss, trauma and difficult emotions through guided conversation and pacing. This method aims to help people make sense of painful events and find ways to reconnect with daily life and relationships.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process and is handled together. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, then try methods that fit the person's needs. That collaborative planning can be adjusted as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make access easier. Video is useful for detailed conversations, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging can help people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility for fitting therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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