About Nicola
Nicola Murray is a counsellor with six years' clinical experience. She offers straightforward support for adults feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. Nicola focuses on helping people find practical ways to cope and reconnect with what matters to them.
She uses a mix of approaches and works together with each person to find what suits them. Sessions aim to build skills for managing stress, anxiety, anger and low mood. Nicola also helps people facing changes such as grief, career shifts, or parenting strains.
How Nicola works
Nicola has particular experience around intimacy and relationship difficulties, issues linked to ADHD, and compulsive or addictive behaviours. She also supports people affected by trauma, bereavement, sleep and eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Additional interests include attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems and care-related stress.
The practice draws on evidence-informed methods including acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and attachment-based work. She also uses client-centred principles and the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are a focus. Nicola keeps language plain and work practical so conversations feel useful from the first session.
Sessions are offered in English and she works with international clients. Nicola is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, recorded as BACP, and practices from the United Kingdom.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- 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
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Nicola commonly uses acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy in her online work. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed, then choose actions that move them towards valued goals. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood and change unhelpful patterns.She also draws on attachment-based ideas when relationship patterns or intimacy issues are central. Attachment work helps people understand how early patterns of relating affect current trust, closeness and communication, which can be useful when repairing or changing relationship habits. Deciding which approach to use is collaborative - the therapist will discuss options, try techniques and adapt the plan based on what works for the client.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or need less bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel.
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