About Nicola
Nicola Burgess uses a person-centred approach to help people feel heard and understood. She is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with seven years of practice and a BSc (Hons) in Person-Centred Counselling. Nicola keeps sessions straightforward and calm so people can speak openly about what matters to them.
She offers support for a wide range of concerns. These include relationship and family worries, trauma and abuse, anxiety and depression, and issues around self-esteem and motivation.
How Nicola works
Nicola also works with people facing grief, addiction, eating and sleeping problems, and challenges tied to parenting or career changes. Her style is practical and collaborative. Nicola listens without judgement and helps people make sense of their experiences.
She draws on narrative ideas to look at personal stories and solution-focused techniques to identify small, achievable steps forward. Many clients bring complex histories such as attachment or abandonment issues, adoption and foster care experiences, or difficulties from past domestic violence.
Nicola recognises how these histories can affect current relationships and day-to-day coping, and she helps people untangle those patterns at a comfortable pace. Sessions are offered through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Nicola’s work is aimed at helping people build stronger self-worth, clearer communication, and more manageable daily routines.
She supports each person to set realistic goals and to move toward them one step at a time.
Nicola lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Nicola works with
The areas below are the ones Nicola selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
How her approaches work online
Nicola blends person-centred, narrative and solution-focused ideas into online work to keep sessions direct and practical. Person-centred counselling focuses on listening and understanding what the person brings, which helps with issues like low self-worth, grief, or anxiety. Narrative ideas look at the stories someone tells about themselves and their relationships and help rewrite harmful patterns to support clearer choices. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on identifying small steps and building on what already works, useful for managing stress, coping with life changes, or improving communication.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Nicola treats it as a collaboration. She will help the person decide which ideas suit their needs and goals, and adapt techniques as conversations develop. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, and the plan can shift as priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls let people read visual cues and work more closely on interpersonal issues. Phone sessions are good when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter exchanges, ongoing check-ins, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities, or daily routines while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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