About Nicola
Nicola Murray is a counsellor with six years of clinical experience. She holds BACP accreditation from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and works with adults who are dealing with anxiety, stress and life changes. Nicola focuses on practical ways to manage difficult feelings and get back to a steadier place.
Nicola keeps sessions straightforward and collaborative. She listens to what matters most and helps people try different ways of coping, such as looking at thought patterns or experimenting with new behaviours.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and down to earth, with an emphasis on small, manageable steps. Her background includes work with intimacy and relationship concerns, ADHD, OCD, trauma and grief. Nicola also supports people facing burnout, compassion fatigue and challenges linked to identity, including LGBT issues.
She draws on a few different therapy approaches to match each person’s needs. In therapy Nicola will often help someone notice the patterns that keep causing distress. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness-based approaches, while paying attention to how early attachments shape current relationships.
Sessions aim to build clearer communication, better emotion regulation and more reliable routines. Nicola offers a mix of conversational support and skills practice. She will suggest experiments you can try between sessions and review what helps.
People who prefer a straightforward, compassionate counsellor who uses clear techniques may find her easy to work with.
Approaches that suit online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and situations where feeling stuck is a problem. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and improve routines. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and can help with intimacy, trust and long-standing relationship difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Nicola will discuss your goals and preferences and try methods that fit your situation. She will check in and adapt techniques as you go, so the plan changes if something is not helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from different locations, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and suit quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short exchanges, journalling between sessions or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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