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Nicola Ellis, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 6 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseSelf esteemDepressionADHD
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Nicola Ellis is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom who brings six years of experience to her work. She holds a BA (Hons) in Person-Centred Counselling and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and is a member of the BACP. Nicola aims to make first contact as straightforward as possible for people who are worried or unsure about seeking help.
She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through anxiety, low mood, grief and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions are client-led and paced to suit each person. Nicola combines person-centred values with other helpful approaches so sessions meet real needs rather than fitting a single template. Her clinical interests include stress, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addiction and ADHD, along with issues such as body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
She also supports people dealing with career strain, parenting pressures, bereavement and changes in life circumstances. Nicola works with sexual orientation and intimacy-related concerns as part of a broad practice. In practice she draws on attachment-based ideas and mindfulness alongside narrative and relationship-focused work.
Hypnotherapy is also part of her toolkit when it suits the person’s goals. Her style is warm and collaborative, focused on helping people find practical ways to feel steadier day to day. Nicola is available to work with people in English and accepts international clients.
To begin, visitors are invited to use the site’s Start Therapy flow and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling a session.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand attachment needs and how these affect current relationships and emotional reactions. Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the centre of sessions and helps build self-understanding through empathic listening and reflective questions. Mindfulness therapy brings present-moment awareness and simple exercises to reduce reactivity and manage stress and anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Nicola will talk with each person about what feels most helpful and adjust the methods used as understanding grows. Together they decide which techniques best match the client’s aims and comfort level, so therapy evolves to meet changing needs.
If you are considering online work, check the current session options before booking. The biography mentions video, telephone and text-based sessions as possibilities, so ask which formats are offered now. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments around work, childcare or travel, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people choose quieter surroundings or avoid camera use if preferred.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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 assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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