About Nika
Nika Bowens is a UK-based counsellor who draws on eight years of clinical experience. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, depression and life transitions. She also supports those managing trauma, low self-esteem, chronic health issues and neurodivergence such as ADHD and autism.
She favours a gentle, collaborative style. Sessions focus on understanding thoughts, feelings and patterns that keep someone stuck. Nika listens without judgement and helps clients notice small shifts that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Her approach blends practical techniques with attention to personal history. That means looking at how past experiences and current relationships shape reactions now. She helps people try new responses and practices that feel doable between sessions.
Nika has worked with people from multicultural and international backgrounds and draws on her own experience of living across cultures. That background informs how she explores identity, belonging and the strain that moving between worlds can cause. Reaching out is often hard, and she treats that step as important.
Nika aims to create a steady space where clients can move at their own pace. Together she and the client set clear, manageable goals and track progress in everyday terms.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences drive every choice. It focuses on what matters most to you and builds small, values-led actions to move toward those goals. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and teaches practical strategies to change patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss different methods and decide together with the client which fits best. That collaborative process means techniques are adapted to personal goals, pace and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you use visual cues and mirror an in-person session, while phone sessions may suit those with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, coaching-style support or when it helps to write thoughts down. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or family life and to maintain continuity when circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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