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Nicola Longson, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 5 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseAnger managementSelf esteem
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Nicola Longson is a BACP counsellor who offers a warm, respectful approach to therapy. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression and mood concerns, and supports those coping with trauma, anger and relationship worries. Nicola aims to make conversations straightforward and practical so people feel understood and able to move forward.
She uses client-centred ways of working to create space for each person’s story. That means listening carefully and shaping sessions around what matters most to the individual.
Background and approach
Nicola also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try more helpful behaviours. Mindfulness tools are offered when helpful to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day coping. Trauma-focused methods are used when past experiences are getting in the way of current life.
Nicola adapts her approach to match the issue, whether it is grief, parenting strain, work stress, or questions about intimacy and self-esteem. With five years of experience in the United Kingdom, Nicola combines practical steps with personal support. She works collaboratively to set goals and checks progress along the way.
Sessions can help people manage sleeping problems, ADHD-related challenges, career changes, and blended family tensions. Nicola encourages people to take the first step even when it feels hard. Her style is straightforward, compassionate and goal-focused.
She helps people find clearer thinking, calmer responses and more satisfying ways of living.
How Nicola’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The counsellor follows the person’s lead, reflects back what they hear and helps clients find their own solutions. This approach helps when someone needs space to make sense of their feelings and decide what matters next.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings and behaviours together. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and try new actions that usually reduce anxiety or low mood. CBT can be useful for stress, sleep problems, and repetitive negative thinking.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicola will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then agree a way forward together. That collaborative process may combine listening, CBT techniques or mindfulness practices depending on the presenting issue.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video calls suit longer, in-depth sessions while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support or when someone prefers writing things down. These options help make counselling flexible and easier to fit around work, family and daily routines.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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