About Nicola
Nicola Demetriou uses a client-centred approach to help people face stress, anxiety, depression and major life changes. She is a BACP counsellor with seven years' experience. Nicola aims to create a warm, honest space where people can talk through difficult feelings at their own pace.
She trained in integrative counselling so she can draw on different ways of working. In practice Nicola often blends client-centred work with narrative and psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns, past influences and current choices.
How Nicola works
Sessions focus on exploring thoughts, feelings and behaviours and finding practical steps forward. Nicola has supported people with bereavement, relationship and family problems, and grief through charities and primary care settings. Her background includes work with a bereavement charity, a community charity, GP surgery counselling and supporting families via social services.
This range of settings has shaped how she plans short blocks of work and longer-term support. In the room she will help identify unhelpful patterns and where they may come from. Conversations can include looking at past experiences, reframing negative thoughts and trying simple coping tools such as breathing and relaxation.
Nicola often sets achievable goals and reviews progress in six-session blocks to keep work focused. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. People who contact her usually start with an initial assessment to outline goals and agree a meeting plan before continuing with regular weekly or fortnightly sessions.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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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 Nicola's approaches work online
Nicola uses client-centred work to focus on the person's experience and what matters most to them. This approach involves listening deeply and helping people find their own answers, which is useful for managing anxiety, low mood and life changes.Narrative therapy helps by separating a problem from the person and looking at the stories someone tells about themselves. Working this way can make it easier to spot unhelpful patterns and to try new ways of relating to difficulties.
Psychodynamic ideas look at how past relationships and early experiences influence current feelings and reactions. This can help when patterns keep repeating or when emotional responses feel confusing.
Finding the most helpful approach is part of the work. Nicola will collaborate with the person to decide which ideas to use and will adapt methods to fit their goals and preferences. That way therapy stays practical and relevant to what the person wants to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people see facial cues and hold fuller conversations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can suit shorter check-ins, ongoing reflections between sessions or people who communicate better in writing. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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