Nicola 'Nikki' Crosby
Practical support for stress, relationships and trauma
About Nicola
Nicola 'Nikki' Crosby helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and depression. She presents these concerns plainly and offers steady support for the hard first steps into therapy. Nikki keeps sessions simple and direct.
She aims to create an open space where clients can say what they think and feel without judgement. She encourages practical conversation about day-to-day struggles and the patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
With four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom, Nikki draws on methods that are evidence based. She listens for attachment and abandonment difficulties, and pays attention to problems that arise from family life, blended households and separation. She also supports people managing autism traits, dissociation, codependency and feelings of emptiness.
In sessions she works at the client pace. Nikki focuses on improving communication, building coping strategies and helping people notice unhelpful patterns. She is straightforward about goals and checks in regularly to see what is working.
Getting started is framed as a collaborative step. Nikki guides people through a short matching questionnaire and scheduling process. She aims to make the first contact as clear and manageable as possible.
Her practice offers several ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. This variety helps people pick what fits their routine and comfort.
What Nicola works with
Sessions & fees
Evidence-based approaches and online sessions
Nicola uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and understanding emotional patterns. One common approach helps people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns that feed anxiety and depression, supporting clearer day-to-day coping and mood management. Another approach looks at attachment and relationship dynamics to help people improve communication and reduce repeated hurt from abandonment or trust issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that suit their needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as therapy progresses.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make it easier to fit therapy into life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone calls can be shorter check-ins or help when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief updates or people who prefer typing. These options give flexibility so people can pick what works for their routine and comfort.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
