About Nicola
Nicola Murray is a counsellor with six years' experience supporting adults through anxiety, stress and life changes. She holds BACP registration, and works with people who are coping with grief, depression, addictions and relationship or intimacy concerns. Nicola uses straightforward language and a practical focus in sessions.
Nicola typically begins by listening to what matters most to each person. She aims to help clients notice patterns in their body and thoughts, and then try small changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual's needs. Her background includes cognitive behavioural therapy, and she also uses somatic and attachment-based approaches alongside client-centred methods. That mix is used to address emotional, behavioural and relational difficulties rather than to label someone.
Nicola has particular experience helping with ADHD, intimacy and trust issues, anger and obsessive patterns. She also supports people managing parenting strain, career pressure, sleep and eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Practical tools often include grounding and breathing practices, noticing body signals, thought work and simple communication strategies.
Nicola will work with clients to decide which tools suit them, and to build steps they can use between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Somatic-informed work helps people notice physical sensations that connect to emotions and stress. Online sessions can guide gentle body awareness, grounding techniques and breathing exercises that reduce overwhelm and improve regulation.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on values and small actions that move you towards a meaningful life. It uses simple exercises to clarify what matters and to practise choosing actions aligned with those values, which can help with anxiety, depression and stuck patterns.
Attachment-based methods look at how early relationships shape current patterns. In online sessions this can mean mapping common interaction styles and practising new ways of communicating and relating to others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try different techniques and agree what feels most helpful. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits each person.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. It makes it possible to work from home, during a lunch break or while travelling, and to use formats that suit different nervous systems and schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English