Nicola Murray

Nicola Murray is a counsellor with six years' experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety and overwhelming feelings. She works with concerns such as anger, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD, addictions and grief. Nicola is accredited with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and uses practical talking approaches to help people manage day-to-day struggles.

She explains things plainly and works alongside clients to find what helps. Nicola trained initially in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, and draws on several approaches to tailor sessions to each person's needs. Conversations aim to uncover patterns, build coping skills and identify small changes that make life steadier.

Nicola often supports people dealing with trust issues, attachment worries and the emotional fallout from trauma or separation. She also addresses challenges linked to caring responsibilities, burnout and compassion fatigue. Work can include looking at communication, boundaries and ways to reduce repeated conflicts.

In sessions she combines elements from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy and client-centred ways of working to suit each person. That means practical exercises, mindful noticing and time to reflect on values and goals. The therapist keeps plans simple and focused so progress feels manageable.

Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with an emphasis on what the person wants to change first. Nicola helps people try techniques between meetings and checks what is useful as the work continues. If you want to explore whether this approach fits, the next step is an initial match through the site's Start Therapy flow.

How these approaches work online and in practice

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take small steps towards what matters. It is useful for anxiety, anger and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and trying practical experiments to change them. It often helps with anxiety, depression and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness, and supports people who struggle with intimacy or repeated conflicts.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicola will discuss different methods and together you will decide what fits your goals and preferences. She treats this as a collaborative process and checks in about what feels helpful as the sessions progress.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Many people find remote therapy easier to fit around work and family life, or useful when they cannot travel. Online sessions can also make shorter check-ins possible and cut travel time, helping the work become a regular part of a week rather than a disruption.