Nicola Burgess
Client-centred counsellor supporting life changes
About Nicola
Nicola Burgess uses a client-centred approach to help people make sense of painful experiences and find clearer ways forward. She draws on narrative and solution-focused ideas to keep sessions practical and grounded. Nicola is based in the United Kingdom and has seven years of counselling experience.
She holds BACP accreditation, which she gained after qualifying with a BSc (Hons) in Person-Centred Counselling from Derby University. Nicola has supported people facing relationship difficulties across friendships and personal relationships.
Background and approach
She also works with those who have experienced trauma or abuse, including abusive or narcissistic relationships. Nicola helps people who are grieving losses of many kinds, from death to separation and life transitions. People often come to Nicola for help with low self-esteem, loss of motivation, anxiety and stress.
She also works with concerns such as addiction, sleep and eating issues, intimacy worries, anger, and career-related stress. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges and communication problems. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual.
Nicola listens without judgement and helps people tell their story in a way that can reveal options and small practical steps. She uses short-term, goal-focused techniques alongside longer conversations when needed. Nicola offers consultations by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
She works weekdays and some early evenings, and meets people where scheduling needs fit within her practice.
What Nicola works with
How Nicola works
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Sessions & fees
Online therapy using client-centred and solution-focused methods
Nicola draws on client-centred therapy to build a respectful, listening space where people can tell their story and feel heard. This approach focuses on understanding each person's experience and supporting their own discoveries about change.She also uses narrative therapy to help people separate themselves from problems by exploring the stories they tell about their lives. Narrative work can be useful for issues like identity, grief and relationship patterns. Solution-focused techniques are used to set small, practical goals and identify immediate steps that can improve day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicola will work with each person to decide which methods suit their needs and goals, and she adapts the balance of listening, story work and practical planning as sessions progress.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual connection, phone sessions can be easier when less bandwidth is available, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when being on camera is difficult. These options help people fit therapy into work, family and everyday life while keeping the focus on practical support and progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
