Nicholas Ashley , BACP
Compassionate counsellor blending body and talk work
About Nicholas
Nicholas Ashley is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience and BACP registration. He focuses on helping people who are struggling with grief, trauma, relationship strains and LGBT-related concerns. He aims to make the first steps towards change feel manageable and supports clients through early decisions about what to try next.
Nicholas creates a calm space where people can say what they need to say.
Background and approach
He works to reduce judgement so thoughts and feelings can be shared honestly. Sessions are straightforward and paced to each person’s comfort level. In sessions he blends body-aware work with talking therapy.
That means noticing physical patterns alongside emotions and thoughts. This can help when anxiety, stress or past trauma get stuck in the body. He also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas.
These approaches help people clarify what matters to them and improve how they relate to others. Cognitive Behavioural tools are used when practical steps and skills are needed. Nicholas supports a wide range of concerns beyond mood and grief, including addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting pressure, work stress and self-esteem.
He works collaboratively to set goals and review progress. The focus is on small, usable changes that fit everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how emotions show up in the body, helping people notice breathing, tension and movement while talking about difficult experiences. This can be useful for trauma, anxiety and chronic stress where physical reactions remain after an event.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on what matters to a person and on building small actions that align with those values. It helps with decisions, low mood and coping with ongoing challenges. Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, which can help with intimacy and relationship issues.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy and is decided together. The counsellor will check what feels helpful and adapt methods to the person’s needs, goals and comfort with body-focused exercises or practical skills work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options give practical flexibility for people with busy lives or mobility limits, and allow the same mix of body awareness, values work and skill-building to continue when meeting remotely. Registered or accredited professionals can use these formats to provide consistent, collaborative care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- 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
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English