Nels Rodwell
Experienced counsellor blending talk and practical tools
About Nels
Nels Rodwell is a counsellor with NCPS credentials and 25 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. Nels encourages people to recognise their strengths and to take the first brave step toward a more satisfying life.
She uses a person-centred style that respects each person's knowledge of their own story. That approach is blended with techniques from attachment-based work, cognitive behavioural ideas and emotionally-focused methods to address how people relate to themselves and others.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and grounded, with clear tools for coping and understanding difficult feelings. Nels also brings an interest in existential questions about meaning and values. Conversations can include exploring personal responsibility, self-agency and how choices shape day-to-day life.
She offers writing therapy alongside talk-based methods and, where relevant in face-to-face work, combines counselling with massage as an adjunctive approach. The practice supports adults from many backgrounds and nationalities. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged online for international clients.
Nels outlines simple steps to begin therapy so people can match with the format that best suits their situation. Her practice focuses on helping people build self-awareness, improve communication, and strengthen emotional connections. The aim is to provide steady support, practical strategies and a compassionate space to work through life’s challenges.
What Nels works with
How Nels works
Listed by Nels among the ways they work.
Listed by Nels among the ways they work.
Listed by Nels among the ways they work.
Listed by Nels among the ways they work.
Listed by Nels among the ways they work.
Listed by Nels among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how people form emotional bonds and react in close relationships; online sessions can help identify patterns and build safer ways of connecting. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and manage mood. Emotionally-focused therapy helps people recognise and name core emotions and shift unhelpful interaction cycles that harm relationships.Nels approaches choosing a method as a joint process. She listens to what a person needs, discusses different approaches and adapts the work as therapy progresses. This collaborative stance means the chosen approach can change if it better meets the client’s goals or preferences.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for richer face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth is needed or a voice check-in suits the day. Live chat and messaging offer brief check-ins, written reflection or flexible exchanges across time zones. Together these options make counselling more flexible and easier to fit around work, travel or family life while keeping the focus on practical progress and emotional understanding.
| 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
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
