About Nicola
Nicola Martin is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed, low in mood, or struggling with intense emotions. Nicola aims to help clients find practical ways to cope with day-to-day pressures.
Nicola draws on an integrative approach, which means she uses techniques from different therapeutic models to suit each person. Sessions often include learning coping strategies, talking through difficult feelings, and looking at how past experiences may affect current reactions.
Background and approach
She works with people affected by trauma and abuse and supports those facing relationship difficulties and intimacy-related concerns. Her practice includes helping people who feel isolated, undervalued, or angry, and those experiencing panic attacks or mood swings. Nicola also has experience supporting people dealing with major life changes, caregiving stress, cancer-related challenges, and feelings of emptiness or guilt.
She can help explore attachment and control issues and the impact of infidelity or separation on wellbeing. Nicola is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has three years of clinical experience and has worked in mental health settings.
Sessions are offered in English and are arranged online or by phone to fit different needs. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair a person with Nicola and a session can then be scheduled according to availability.
Approaches and online support for anxiety and life change
Nicola uses an integrative way of working, combining evidence-based techniques to match each person's needs. One common approach is cognitive-style work that helps spot and change thinking patterns that fuel anxiety and panic. This helps with worry, rumination, and unhelpful beliefs that keep stress high. Another element is skills-based coping work, which teaches short-term strategies for managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day functioning. These techniques are useful when someone needs faster relief from overwhelming feelings.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Nicola will work together with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences. She explains options, tests what helps, and adapts the plan as progress is made so the work stays practical and focused.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls suit in-depth work with face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins during a busy day, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family life, or other commitments while maintaining regular contact with a counsellor.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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