About Nicola
Nicola Young is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through at an individual pace. Nicola welcomes diversity and supports people exploring relationship concerns, self-esteem, grief and life changes.
She works collaboratively with each person, using a person-centred way of working as the base of sessions. That means conversations focus on the client's goals and what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Nicola also draws on techniques from solution-focused and existential approaches when these suit a person's aims. Nicola has three years' experience and has worked in independent practice, local counselling agencies and online services. She also volunteers with a local mental health charity as a mental health adviser.
Her background includes a long career in the music industry, giving her extra insight into creative lives and workplace pressures. Her formal training includes a Level 5 Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling from CPCAB and earlier CPCAB diplomas and certificates. She holds the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy membership, BACP.
Additional training covers safeguarding, suicide awareness and mental health first aid. Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text messaging. Nicola uses a collaborative approach to help people set clear, practical steps they can try between sessions.
She invites questions from anyone considering therapy and explains the simple steps to get started.
Approaches that shape online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following the client's pace. It helps people who need acceptance and steady support while they sort out difficult feelings or decisions.Solution-Focused Therapy looks for clear, practical steps you can try between sessions. It suits people who want short-term direction and to build on what is already working in their life.
Existential Therapy encourages looking at values, meaning and choices when life feels uncertain. It can help when people are wrestling with big changes, purpose or identity issues.
Choosing the right approach is something the therapist does together with the client. Nicola will ask about goals, preferences and what has helped in the past, then suggest a blend of methods. The plan can change as work progresses so it matches what the client needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging to give flexible ways to connect. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and messaging suits quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family life or busy schedules while still keeping the focus on practical progress and personal goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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