Nicholas Mistiades Dunn
Experienced counsellor offering practical support
About Nicholas
Nicholas Mistiades Dunn uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people tackle anxiety, stress and life changes. He is straightforward and calm in session. He focuses on practical ways to reduce distress and build coping skills.
Nicholas brings 25 years of experience to his work and aims to make the first step feel manageable. Nicholas has spent a quarter of a century in counselling, supervision and training roles across the United Kingdom.
Background and approach
Over that time he has supported people dealing with grief and loss, relationship strain, self-esteem issues and addiction. He also helps with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns and difficulties around intimacy and eating. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
Nicholas listens first and then works with each person to set clear, realistic goals. He uses approaches that are grounded in research to help people practice new ways of thinking and coping between sessions. He also offers coaching-style support for career decisions and managing compassion fatigue.
Practical strategies for communication and problem solving are a regular part of his work. Nicholas adapts his style depending on how someone prefers to work and what they want to achieve. Nicholas is registered with BACP and NCPS, which are listed credentials.
He works in English and provides online sessions within the UK. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and a scheduling step are used to arrange an initial session.
What Nicholas works with
Sessions & fees
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Nicholas draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thinking and building coping skills. Cognitive-style approaches help people spot and test negative thoughts, which can reduce anxiety and low mood. Behavioural strategies involve small, practical tasks to increase confidence and improve routines, useful for issues such as anxiety, depression or addiction.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicholas discusses goals and preferences at the start and tailors methods as therapy progresses. He works collaboratively, adjusting pace and techniques so they suit each person's situation and what they want to achieve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break or use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for regular check-ins or when a written approach feels more comfortable. These options help people weave therapy into busy lives while keeping treatment consistent and focused.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
