About Nicola
Nicola Jameson is a counsellor and psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom with eight years of professional experience. She works directly with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. Nicola aims to make the first step feel manageable and meets each person with respect and sensitivity.
She offers straightforward, person-focused help for grief, trauma and abuse, and issues with self-esteem and motivation. Sessions are shaped around what a person needs right now rather than a fixed programme.
How Nicola works
Nicola uses a mix of conversational listening and practical techniques so people can make small changes that matter. Nicola also supports those coping with addictions, sleep and eating concerns, anger, and major life changes such as separation or bereavement. She pays attention to patterns that come from attachment and past losses and helps clients spot how these affect day-to-day life.
Work can include building coping strategies and improving emotional awareness. Her practice includes a focus on career stress, ADHD-related challenges, codependency and issues linked to illness and ageing. Nicola adapts session pace and tools to each person, offering a calm space to talk things through.
She explains options clearly and checks in about what is or is not helpful. People can expect a collaborative approach that balances empathy with practical steps. Nicola tailors plans to individual goals and reviews progress as therapy continues.
She encourages people to take pacing and self-care into account while working towards change.
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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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Therapeutic approaches and online support
Nicola commonly draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional patterns. This approach helps when past losses or attachment worries affect trust, closeness and responses to stress. She also uses Client-Centred Therapy which puts the person's perspective at the heart of sessions; the counsellor listens without judgement and helps people find their own solutions.Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work together. Nicola will discuss which methods suit the issues you bring, your goals and how you prefer to work. She adapts the mix of listening, practical tools and skills training in collaboration with each person.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy around work, travel or family commitments while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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