Nicola Claydon
Supportive counsellor for trauma and relationships
About Nicola
Nicola Claydon helps people facing relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, depression, compassion fatigue, addictions, LGBT-related concerns, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem problems, career stress and life transitions. She also works with ADHD and a wide range of related challenges such as codependency, communication problems and body image. Nicola is based in the United Kingdom and communicates in English.
She holds the NCPS credential and has four years of professional experience.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and person-focused. Nicola believes people are the experts in their own story and brings a calm, non-judgemental presence to sessions. She aims to help clients make sense of past events and find clearer ways to move forward.
Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Nicola trained across several placements during her counselling course. She worked with adult survivors of sexual abuse and supported families bereaved by suicide through a charity called Pete’s Dragons.
After the pandemic she supported care workers and completed placement hours with Alabare, working with people who had experienced homelessness in supported accommodation. In practice she blends different ways of working to match each person’s needs. That can include attachment-focused conversations about relationship patterns, client-centred listening to build understanding, cognitive behavioural techniques to change unhelpful thinking, and psychodynamic ideas about past influences.
Mindfulness is used to help with grounding and emotional regulation. Nicola aims to be a steady, practical presence while people make difficult changes. She helps clients set manageable goals, practise new skills between sessions and notice small shifts that add up over time.
What Nicola works with
How Nicola works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Nicola often uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps when people notice repeated difficulties in closeness, trust or boundaries. Client-centred therapy is another core part of her practice and means she listens carefully and follows each person’s pace, helping them feel heard and understood. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicola will discuss different ways of working and agree goals with each person. Together they will try methods that match the client’s needs and preferences and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives or limited local options. Video calls let people see facial cues and have longer conversations, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, ongoing reflections or days when a written reply feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family commitments and other responsibilities.| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- 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
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
