About Nicola
Nicola Ellis trained in person-centred counselling and has six years of experience in the United Kingdom. She works from a calm, approachable style and aims to make reaching out easier for people who feel overwhelmed. Nicola offers practical, down-to-earth support for a wide range of problems.
Her background includes a BA (Hons) in Person-Centred Counselling and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology. Nicola is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP.
How Nicola works
She combines psychology knowledge with a client-centred way of working. That means sessions follow what matters to the person sitting opposite her. Nicola uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships influence current difficulties.
She also draws on mindfulness to help people find steadier moments in their day. Hypnotherapy is another tool she may offer when it suits the person and the issue. Sessions are offered online or by phone, and Nicola can work by live chat or text-based messaging when that is preferred.
These options are intended to fit around busy lives and different comfort levels with talking. Nicola accepts international clients and adapts to each person’s pace. Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low mood, self-esteem concerns, ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, career worries, bipolar and coping with life changes.
Nicola also pays attention to attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, ageing concerns, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
Nicola lists 9 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- 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
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| 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 in online therapy
Nicola draws on attachment-based therapy to look at how early and close relationships shape current feelings and reactions; this can help when trust, loss or repeating relationship patterns cause distress. She also uses client-centred therapy, which means sessions follow what matters most to the person and pace is set by the client rather than the therapist. Mindfulness skills are used to bring attention to the present moment and to develop simple ways of calming intense emotion.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Nicola will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest a route to try. That decision is collaborative and may change as therapy progresses to better meet a person's needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and share a fuller conversation, phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible or bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit counselling around work, family or irregular schedules and allow people to continue work from different locations.
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