About Nicola
Nicola Claydon helps people facing relationship problems, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, depression, ADHD and addiction. She also supports those dealing with parenting strain, low self-esteem, career difficulties, anger and major life changes. Nicola works from a straightforward, calm style and aims to make starting therapy feel less daunting.
Nicola uses clear listening and open questions to help people find their own answers. She draws on attachment ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
How Nicola works
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, mindfulness and psychodynamic thinking are also part of her toolkit depending on what a person needs. Her experience includes placements supporting adult survivors of sexual abuse and people bereaved by suicide. She has worked with care workers and people who have been homeless while in supported accommodation.
Those roles helped her learn to work with strong emotion and complex life circumstances. Nicola holds the NCPS credential. NCPS denotes a professional registration listed in her records.
She has around four years of combined professional experience, including independent practice work with people who bring a wide range of concerns. Sessions are offered in English and she sees international clients. Nicola aims to create a non-judgemental space where people can talk through difficult memories, understand patterns, and build more workable choices for daily life.
Nicola lists 6 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand connection and trust issues and how those patterns affect close relationships. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour that maintain depression, anxiety or mood difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicola will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and decide together which methods to try first. That collaborative process means strategies can be adjusted as therapy moves forward to match what helps most.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or suit people who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easy to check in between sessions or to use shorter, more frequent exchanges. These options help people access consistent support around work, family and travel commitments.
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