Nick Shepley
Practical, collaborative counselling for change
About Nick
Nick Shepley is a counsellor who has worked in mental health for seven years. He holds BACP registration, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and his practice focuses on practical support and steady progress. He speaks English and offers sessions to people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
He helps with a wide range of concerns including addictions, eating and food-related issues, low self-esteem, depression and anxiety.
Background and approach
He also supports people dealing with relationship strains, grief, trauma, parenting challenges and career stress. Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, codependency, domestic violence, and substance use concerns. Nick works in a collaborative way.
He treats clients as experts on their own lives and uses conversation to identify strengths and next steps. Sessions can include goal-setting, practical coping strategies, and reflection on past experiences that still affect day-to-day life.
His approach draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot and change unhelpful thinking, motivational interviewing to build readiness for change, and narrative and psychodynamic ideas to look at how life stories shape current patterns. He also uses solution-focused techniques to keep therapy purposeful and action-oriented. People who choose him often want straightforward help they can apply between sessions.
Nick aims for clarity, compassion and practical tools so clients can manage stress, improve relationships and make changes that matter.
What Nick works with
How Nick works
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Sessions & fees
How Nick’s approaches work online
Narrative therapy helps people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their past. It looks at the meanings placed on events and helps create different, more helpful narratives that support change. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and practising new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and low mood. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational method that builds a person’s own motivation to make changes, especially useful for addictions and behaviour change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nick will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working together. That might mean combining elements from the approaches above so sessions match the person’s needs and moves them towards clear goals.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow a near face-to-face conversation when more connection is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is required. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer type-based conversation or need support between scheduled sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, parenting and other daily commitments.
| 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
- Addictions
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
