Nicholas Ashley
Practical, calm counselling for complex life challenges
About Nicholas
Nicholas Ashley is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. He focuses on helping people facing relationship challenges, grief, trauma and LGBT-related concerns. He aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can speak openly about difficult feelings.
Nicholas uses straightforward talk and practical steps to help people manage anxiety, low mood, stress and addiction-related problems. He also supports people dealing with sleep and eating difficulties, anger, self-esteem worries and major life changes.
Background and approach
His approach combines well-known therapies to suit each person’s situation. People can expect conversations that centre their priorities. Nicholas listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals.
Sessions often include simple exercises to practise between meetings so progress carries into day-to-day life. He also works with issues such as parenting strain, caring responsibilities, chronic illness and body-image concerns. Additional focus areas include attachment difficulties, ADHD and experiences linked to adoption or abandonment.
Nicholas supports people with a range of complex needs and overlapping difficulties. Nicholas is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, abbreviated as BACP. He offers sessions in English and accepts clients from other countries.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
What Nicholas works with
How Nicholas works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then taking action that matches personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current connections. It can be useful for relationship difficulties, attachment concerns and intimacy-related issues.
Nicholas will work collaboratively to find the right approach. He listens to each person's goals and preferences, then suggests methods to try. The plan can change as progress is made so the approach fits real needs.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video helps keep visual connection, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is low, short live chat or messaging sessions suit quick check-ins or ongoing support. These formats make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving or long distances, and they give options for different moments and moods.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship 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
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
