About Nicola
Nicola Moran is a psychotherapist and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She draws on ten years of direct therapeutic experience in the United Kingdom and uses a flexible approach to tailor work to each person. Nicola aims to make therapy a practical step for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
She began her career in the health and wellbeing sector and has supported people with complex needs.
How Nicola works
That background shaped a straightforward style that focuses on everyday problems, like stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. Nicola also has experience with trauma and abuse, and with supporting people facing career shifts and major life changes. In sessions she mixes approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques.
This lets her shift focus depending on what is most useful that week. She uses mindfulness and Jungian ideas too when exploring patterns, meaning and emotional habits. Nicola emphasises collaboration.
She sees people as the experts in their own lives and helps them spot strengths they already have. Therapy tends to be conversational and practical, with an aim to build steady coping strategies and clearer choices. She speaks English and accepts international clients for online work.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. To start, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Nicola lists 10 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| 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 translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape patterns today and helps people understand why they respond the way they do in close connections. It can be useful for issues like trust, communication and recurring conflict. Client-centred therapy focuses on being heard and understood; the therapist offers empathic listening and gentle reflection so people can find their own answers. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and introduces practical steps to change those patterns, which can ease anxiety and boost confidence.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Nicola works collaboratively to decide what feels most helpful based on a person's goals, needs and preferences. She will check in and adjust the focus as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different situations. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing written reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and fit therapy around everyday life.
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