Chris Nicholls
Compassionate counsellor focusing on feelings and solutions
About Chris
Chris Nicholls is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of practice. He offers a warm, interactive approach and aims to walk alongside people as they talk through what is difficult for them. Sessions are shaped around each person's pace and preferences.
He sees a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression. He also helps with life changes, parenting strain, work worries, addiction-related issues and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, dissociation and caregiver stress. His work is influenced by emotionally focused ideas and person-centred values. That means conversations focus on what matters to the person, with attention to feelings and the patterns behind them.
He also uses solution-focused and mindfulness approaches to find practical steps and build awareness. Chris has a BACP credential, which is listed in his profile. He has carried out several thousand sessions across five years of practice.
His background includes supporting people facing trauma, bereavement, chronic illness and ADHD-related challenges. In sessions he keeps the tempo under the person's control and aims to be non-judgemental. People can expect an interactive style that mixes listening, reflection and practical strategies.
His goal is to support people as they move toward clearer decisions and daily coping that feels more manageable.
What Chris works with
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Sessions & fees
How emotion-focused and person-centred work translate online
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person's experience first. Online sessions following this approach mean the counsellor listens closely, reflects back what matters and follows the person's lead to explore concerns such as low self-esteem, relationship patterns or coping with life changes.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on feelings and attachment patterns. In online work this means paying attention to emotional responses and moments in the conversation that reveal important patterns, which can help with grief, trauma-related reactions and intimacy-related struggles.
Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away by them. Online sessions can introduce short exercises and simple practices to build awareness and reduce reactivity in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the person to decide which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences. That decision is reviewed as work progresses and can change as new priorities emerge.
Online formats offer flexibility for different days and needs. Video calls are useful for fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, while live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to keep continuity and to try different ways of working until the best fit is found.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
