About Nicola
Nicola Kassam offers a warm, straightforward counselling style that focuses on the person in front of her. She uses client-centred listening and practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief and low mood. Nicola keeps sessions simple and direct so parents and busy adults can talk things through without jargon.
She draws on five years of hands-on therapeutic experience and a background in careers and employability work in further and higher education.
How Nicola works
That previous work sharpened her ability to help people with motivation, confidence and practical life decisions. Nicola also supports people facing family problems, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and eating-related concerns. Her approach blends client-centred Therapy with existential thinking and mindfulness practice.
Sessions aim to explore what matters most to the individual and build small, usable steps forward. Motivational Interviewing techniques are used when clients want help finding drive and direction. Nicola is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She works with people in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients who can take part in online sessions. Sessions are held by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. People often come for focused support around career choices, family conflict, grief, chronic illness or long-standing anxiety.
Nicola helps each person set realistic goals and practical ways to reach them. She encourages steady progress rather than sudden fixes.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Nicola uses client-centred Therapy, which places the person and their experience at the heart of each session. That means the conversation follows what matters to the client and the counsellor reflects back understanding to help clarify feelings and choices.She also draws on mindfulness Therapy to teach simple techniques for noticing thoughts and body sensations. These practices can help with anxiety, stress and managing difficult emotions by building everyday habits to steady attention.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicola will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, and help decide which mix of client-centred listening, mindfulness and motivational techniques feels most useful. The focus is on what fits the person's life and what they want to change.
Online work makes it easier to fit counselling into a busy routine. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from different locations, phone sessions need less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options offer flexibility for people balancing work, family or health needs, and help keep therapy consistent over time.
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