Nicola Vernon
Empathic counsellor helping people move forward
About Nicola
Nicola Vernon helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She is a counsellor with 20 years' experience and holds BACP accreditation. Nicola uses straightforward, calm conversations to help people understand their feelings and respond differently to difficult situations.
Nicola offers a welcoming, non-judgemental space where clients set the pace. She listens to what matters most and helps people make small, manageable changes. Sessions aim to make day-to-day life feel more bearable and to reduce distress caused by past or current problems.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with depression, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, bereavement and loss, addictions, and trauma. Nicola also supports people facing challenges linked to parenting, sleep and eating concerns, career strain, compassion fatigue and ADHD. She has particular experience with blended family issues, caregiver stress, and first responder concerns.
Nicola draws on practical approaches such as client-centred work, cognitive behavioural ideas, motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques. She uses these methods to help people spot unhelpful patterns, set realistic goals, and build coping strategies that fit everyday life. Sessions are offered at times that suit people who work or have caring responsibilities, including evenings and weekends.
Nicola works in the United Kingdom and conducts therapy in English. To begin, people use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before booking a suitable time.
What Nicola works with
How Nicola works
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Sessions & fees
How Nicola’s approaches work online
Nicola draws on client-centred work and cognitive behavioural ideas to guide sessions. Client-centred work focuses on listening, empathy and helping people find their own answers. It is useful when people want a calm space to talk through feelings such as sadness, grief, or relationship strain. Cognitive behavioural approaches look at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and help people test and change unhelpful patterns. This can support those with anxiety, low mood, compulsive behaviours or sleep and eating problems.Choosing the right approach is treated as a joint process. Nicola works with each person to identify what feels most helpful for their goals and circumstances. She adapts methods over time, combining listening with shorter practical exercises when that suits the person’s needs.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation when time and travel are limited. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text messaging are good for shorter check-ins, note-based reflection, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to access a therapist from different places in the UK.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
