About Nicola
Nicola Kassam is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses a client-centred approach to help people facing stress and anxiety. She combines warmth with a practical focus to make conversations straightforward. Nicola has five years of counselling experience and also brings earlier career work in higher and further education to sessions.
She supports people dealing with grief and loss and those wanting to build self-esteem and confidence. Nicola also helps with relationship strain, career questions and the emotional impact of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to eating and depression concerns and to issues linked to adoption, foster care and disability. Sessions focus on listening without judgement and on working together to set practical goals. Nicola uses mindfulness to help people manage overwhelming thoughts and motivational interviewing techniques to explore change and commitment.
The client-centred foundation keeps the person’s priorities central in every session. Nicola has experience supporting people from diverse backgrounds and accepts international clients. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life.
Her BACP credential is recorded as BACP. People new to therapy are guided through a short matching questionnaire and then can schedule sessions that suit them. Nicola aims to make the first steps clear and manageable so people can focus on what they want to work on.
How Nicola’s approaches work online
Nicola uses a client-centred approach that places the person’s concerns and goals at the heart of sessions. This means conversations start with what matters to the client and build from there, helping people shape practical steps that fit their life.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice thoughts and bodily responses without getting swept away by them. Mindfulness can be useful for stress, anxiety and coping with difficult emotions in everyday moments.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Nicola will discuss options openly and tailor the mix of client-centred listening, mindfulness and motivational interviewing to match the person’s needs and preferences. The choice of methods is decided collaboratively during early sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual connection, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging helps people who prefer written reflection. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus where it matters.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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