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Nicola Moran, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 10 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemADHD
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Nicola Moran is a psychotherapist and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She works in the United Kingdom and brings ten years of direct therapeutic experience to her practice. Nicola aims to create a calm space where people can begin to untangle stress and anxiety.
She believes clients know their story best and helps them build on their own strengths. Before focusing on therapy Nicola spent many years in the health and wellbeing sector supporting people with complex needs.
Background and approach
That background shaped a practical approach that blends several methods. Nicola uses what fits the person rather than sticking to a single technique. She commonly helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, ADHD, LGBT issues, and parenting strains.
Nicola also works with career concerns, coping with life changes and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment difficulties, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Nicola draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early patterns affect current relationships.
She uses client-centred listening to make people feel heard and CBT-style tools to tackle unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Sessions tend to mix reflection with concrete steps so people leave with something to try between meetings. Sessions are offered in English and Nicola accepts international clients.
People can arrange sessions by following the site process and completing a short matching questionnaire to find a good fit.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Nicola draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns influence present-day behaviour and feelings; this can help when trust, closeness or repeat relationship problems are a concern. Client-centred therapy is another key strand where the counsellor offers warm, non-judgemental listening to help people make sense of their own priorities and decisions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours through practical exercises that can be tried between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Nicola will work collaboratively to decide what fits each person's needs, goals and preferences. That may mean combining methods or adjusting the pace as you discover what helps most.
Online therapy lets people access those approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera or have limited bandwidth, and live chat or messaging can be good for short check-ins or when a written dialogue feels easier. These options give flexibility to fit sessions around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical steps and emotional support.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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