Nancy Cowling
Practical support for stress and life changes
About Nancy
Nancy Cowling offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, low mood, or life changes. She meets each person where they are and helps them work through specific problems. Conversations focus on practical steps, clearer thinking, and building confidence for day-to-day life.
Nancy is a BACP counsellor with seven years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She believes clients know their own stories and brings a collaborative attitude to sessions.
Background and approach
That means she listens first, then helps identify small, manageable goals to work on together. In sessions she helps people tackle stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and relationship strains. She also supports those affected by trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, sleep or eating difficulties, and career-related worries.
Work can include coping strategies, looking at patterns that keep problems going, and practising new ways of handling difficult moments. Nancy pays attention to attachment and issues around abandonment, codependency, and commitment. She also offers support for concerns such as body image, dissociation, anger, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters.
Her approach aims to reduce distress and increase practical coping skills. Sessions use plain language and a steady pace. Nancy encourages clients to try small changes between meetings and to reflect on what helps.
The overall focus is on building resilience and clearer choices as life shifts. To begin, clients answer a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Therapy is delivered online through a mix of video, phone, chat, or messaging, and subscriptions can be cancelled at any time.
What Nancy works with
Sessions & fees
Practical approaches and online therapy options
Two common evidence-based techniques Nancy draws on are skills-based work and trauma-informed listening. Skills-based work involves learning concrete coping tools such as breathing exercises, sleep strategies, and steps to manage intense emotions; it can help with anxiety, anger, and day-to-day stress. Trauma-informed listening focuses on pacing, safety and grounding, and helps people who are processing traumatic or abusive experiences to feel steadier as they talk.Nancy treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with the client about their needs, try small techniques, and adjust the plan together. That way the work reflects the person's goals and what actually helps in their life.
Online therapy offers real flexibility for people with busy or changing days. Video calls let conversations feel more face to face, phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower bandwidth, and live chat or messaging work well for quick reflections and when writing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or medical appointments and to use techniques between meetings.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
