About Nicky
Nicky Owen is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 20 years of professional experience. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem or relationship and family difficulties.
Nicky helps people cope with grief, life changes and issues that affect intimacy and commitment. She also offers support for anger, addiction, trauma and depression.
Background and approach
Parents who feel uncertain about their role can find practical help for parenting stresses. Her way of working starts from the view that each person knows their story best. Sessions aim to use a person’s existing strengths and resilience to make steady change.
Nicky listens closely and helps people work through painful memories and difficult emotions at a pace that suits them. Therapy draws on approaches that pay attention to relationships and emotions. Nicky uses tools to help people understand attachment patterns, recognise feelings, and find workable steps forward.
Sessions are straightforward and focused on goals that matter to the individual. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Sessions run on a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, follow the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to arrange sessions.
How attachment and emotion work in online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current connections. It helps people recognise repeating patterns and the feelings that come up in close relationships, which can be useful for anxiety and intimacy concerns.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centres on identifying and working with strong emotions in the moment. It helps people understand painful feelings and respond to them differently, which can ease distress and improve emotional regulation during stressful times.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then help decide which methods to bring into sessions. This is a collaborative process and can change as needs shift over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face time and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a quick break or need less bandwidth, live chat suits short check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make counselling more flexible and easier to fit around daily life, travel or work commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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