About Nicola
Nicola Spence is a counsellor who helps people coping with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports those facing life changes, addictive behaviours, relationship and intimacy concerns, and the strain of caregiving or chronic health issues. Nicola works from a human-centred, compassion-focused stance and aims to create a calm space where people can speak openly.
She begins by listening to each person’s story and building a shared understanding of what brought them to therapy.
Background and approach
Nicola does not use symptom lists or diagnostic labels when exploring difficulties. Instead she looks at how past experiences connect with current patterns and feelings. Sessions are collaborative.
Nicola offers choices about direction and practical steps, while respecting each person’s pace. She aims to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small changes that suit their life. Nicola practises somatic-informed methods alongside approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
She draws on three years of professional practice in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. People meet Nicola online through video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. She works in English and will help clients find the approach that best fits their needs and goals.
How Nicola uses different approaches online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice bodily sensations that link to stress or trauma and learn simple ways to regulate those responses. This can be useful for anxiety, tension, low mood and people who feel stuck in their bodies.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, and to take steps that match their values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect and introduces practical experiments to change unhelpful patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicola will explore your needs, goals and preferences and decide together which methods to try. She frames this as a shared process where options are discussed and adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health needs and allow people to join sessions from home or another convenient place. Registered or accredited professionals can use these options to maintain continuity of care and adapt exercises for remote delivery.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English