Nicola Channing
Practical, compassionate counselling for everyday pressures
About Nicola
Nicola Channing is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has eight years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship concerns. Nicola aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive for those who are unsure where to begin.
Nicola offers straightforward, conversational support. Sessions focus on practical ways to cope with difficult feelings and day-to-day pressures. She helps people build confidence, manage anger, face changes in life, and work through problems linked to intimacy and addiction.
Background and approach
Her background includes a range of concerns such as parenting strain, career worries, body image and attachment-related issues. She also supports people dealing with adoption or foster care histories, ageing challenges, neurodiversity like autism, and personality-related difficulties such as avoidant or dependent patterns. In conversation Nicola creates a non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through.
Together with each person she identifies small, achievable steps and practical strategies to try between sessions. The focus is on what helps in everyday life rather than on technical terms. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged to suit different schedules.
Nicola works with individual adults who want steady, compassionate support while they make changes and regain a sense of control.
What Nicola works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Nicola uses well-established, evidence-based techniques to guide sessions in a clear and practical way. One common approach focuses on building coping skills and problem-solving strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress, helping people handle everyday pressures with concrete steps. Another approach concentrates on emotion awareness and regulation, teaching ways to notice feelings, name them, and respond differently to reduce overwhelm and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicola will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts strategies as progress is made. The emphasis is on trying things that make a real difference between sessions rather than on feeling stuck with one method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions suit people who prefer not to use video or have limited bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when messaging fits a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel, while keeping the focus on steady practical support.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
