About Nicholas
Nicholas Ashley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. He focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, loss, trauma and relationship concerns. He creates a calm space where people can talk about difficult feelings without fear of being judged.
He works with a wide range of issues including LGBT matters, addictions, sleep and eating concerns, and coping with major life changes. Nicholas also supports people dealing with grief, compassion fatigue and the stresses of caregiving.
Background and approach
He is familiar with attachment difficulties and challenges related to neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Nicholas uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people build skills and make changes. He draws on approaches that focus on values, thoughts, and emotional regulation to help people handle painful memories and day-to-day stress.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. People can expect straightforward language and a warm, non-judgemental style. Nicholas aims to help clients notice what matters to them, learn simple coping strategies, and take small steps towards clearer choices.
He supports clients through both immediate problems and longer-term change. Appointments are offered online in English and can suit people who need flexible access. The therapist encourages anyone feeling stuck or overwhelmed to consider a first session and see if the approach feels right.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions in line with those values while learning to sit with difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thinking patterns and practising new ways of responding to reduce distress and build coping skills.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Nicholas works collaboratively to choose methods that match each person’s goals and preferences. Together they review what is helping, try different techniques, and adapt the focus as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit longer, interactive work and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or people with limited bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief checkpoints, reflective writing and steady support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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