About Nicola
Nicola 'Nikki' Crosby supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and depression. She introduces a calm, approachable presence and encourages clear, straightforward conversation. Her aim is to help people feel heard and to work out practical next steps together.
Nikki has four years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and uses that background to guide her work. Sessions focus on what is happening now and what the person wants to change or understand.
Background and approach
In the therapy room she keeps language simple and direct. She encourages people to name feelings and notice patterns that make life harder. Conversations can include looking at attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, or how past trauma affects day-to-day coping.
Practical tools and small experiments are often part of sessions. This can mean trying different ways to manage anxiety, testing new communication skills, or planning steps to reduce stress. Goals are set together and reviewed as things progress.
Nikki also offers support around concerns such as codependency, commitment worries, dissociation, or difficulties after separation. She is comfortable discussing how autism or avoidant personality traits can shape relationships and emotional life. Her style stays warm, straightforward and focused on usable changes.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Nicola often uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people manage worry and change unhelpful patterns. One approach focuses on practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress - learning short exercises to reduce immediate symptoms and building routines that lower overall tension. Another approach examines attachment and relationship patterns - looking at how early bonds shape current responses and practising new ways of relating that reduce conflict and isolation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will share ideas, try methods together, and adjust based on what the person finds useful. Clients and therapist decide collaboratively which techniques fit their goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling more flexible. Video helps keep visual connection for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit brief check-ins or day-to-day support. These options let people fit therapy into work, family life, or travel without losing continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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