About Chris
Chris Nicholls is a BACP-registered counsellor with five years’ experience. He aims to make therapy practical and straightforward for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief or life changes. His style is warm and interactive and he keeps the pace guided by each person’s needs.
He works in English and practises from the United Kingdom. Chris approaches sessions as a collaborative process. He uses person-centred principles so the client’s priorities steer the work.
Background and approach
He also brings in elements from emotionally-focused work and solution-focused techniques to help with relationships, feelings of emptiness, addiction and communication problems. He has experience supporting people with bereavement, trauma, caring for someone with serious illness, ADHD and bipolar concerns. That experience includes working through anger, sleep problems, shame, and issues around intimacy and attachment.
Chris aims to adapt his approach to the person in front of him rather than following one fixed method. Sessions are conversational and practical. Clients can expect short-term goals alongside space to talk about deeper emotions.
He emphasises listening first, then helping people notice patterns and try small changes between meetings. Chris uses a mix of client-centred, emotionally-focused and solution-focused approaches to suit different problems. He encourages people to take small, manageable steps and to use therapy as a place to test out new ways of coping.
If someone is ready to begin, he supports them through the practical steps of starting therapy.
How Chris’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. Sessions centre on listening and reflecting so the individual can find their own solutions; this helps with anxiety, low self-esteem and coping with life changes.Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how emotions shape responses. It helps people understand attachment, intimacy issues and recurring relationship conflicts by naming emotions and trying new ways of connecting.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Chris will discuss options and adapt methods based on a person's goals and preferences. The process is collaborative - the therapist and client decide what fits best as they go.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit brief check-ins or days when writing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments and to keep progress steady between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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