About Nicole
Nicole Barry is a counsellor with five years of direct practice. She aims to help people feel heard and clearer about their next steps. She describes her style as warm, understanding and non-judgemental.
Nicole works at a pace that suits each person and tailors sessions to individual needs. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, stress, depression, relationship and family difficulties, self-esteem and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people with addictions, grief, trauma and a variety of intimacy or eating and sleeping issues. Additional areas she notes include ADHD, caregiver stress, body image and codependency. Nicole draws on several approaches to shape practical conversations and exercises.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice thoughts and try new actions. Attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas guide work on relationships and closeness. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, and she offers regular messaging check-ins between meetings.
Her online practice accepts international clients and operates from the United Kingdom. Nicole holds BACP accreditation, which appears as BACP in her credentials. People who choose Nicole can expect a collaborative way of working.
She invites clients to set goals and to work together on steps that fit everyday life. The aim is to leave therapy with clearer coping tools and a plan to keep moving forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Nicole often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and offers practical steps to change unhelpful cycles.She also uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas when relationship concerns or closeness are part of the work. These approaches help people understand how past and present relationships affect feelings and interactions, and guide changes in how people connect with others.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. Plans can change over time as priorities shift and progress is reviewed.
Online therapy with Nicole is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls suit longer conversational work, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins and flexible contact, and text-based therapy allows ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep regular contact between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- 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
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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