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Nicola Barnard, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 4 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesGriefSelf esteemDepression
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Nicola Barnard uses a client-centred approach to help people who are feeling overwhelmed. She mixes practical tools with listening and gentle challenge so people can make sense of their feelings. Nicola aims to create a calm space where someone can talk without being judged.
She holds a BACP accreditation and has four years of practice in the United Kingdom. Nicola helps people manage stress, anxiety and low mood. She supports those coping with grief, loss and big life changes.
Background and approach
Career worries, anger and low self-esteem are also areas she addresses. Nicola works with people affected by trauma, parenting pressures, compassion fatigue and the challenges of ADHD. Her way of working draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioural ideas to notice unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and how early patterns keep repeating. Dialectical behaviour therapy skills and mindfulness practices are used when people need tools to regulate strong emotions. Sessions are conversational and practical.
Nicola will listen, reflect back what she hears and suggest simple exercises to try between meetings. She supports clients to set small goals and track what changes over time. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs.
Nicola works in English and does not take international clients. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match your values. It helps when worry, avoidance or unhelpful habits get in the way of living the life you want. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers clear steps to test and change unhelpful patterns. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood and stress. Attachment-based therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and behaviour, and it can help people understand recurring relationship difficulties.Finding the best approach is a joint process. Nicola will talk with you about your goals, try different ideas and agree what feels most helpful. She adapts methods to match your needs rather than sticking to a single model, so you can shape the work together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls work well for full sessions and face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can fit into a tight schedule or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let you check in between appointments or use shorter, more frequent contacts. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to practise skills in day-to-day life.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- 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
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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