Nicola Fiveash
Calm, practical support for emotional struggle
About Nicola
Nicola Fiveash is an integrative counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She has five years of experience supporting people through grief, trauma, stress and anxiety. Nicola works with adults who are navigating life changes, struggling with low mood, or coping with the ongoing effects of past experiences.
Her practice draws on a mix of approaches so sessions can be shaped to each person. She uses client-centred methods to offer non-judgemental listening and acceptance.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioural techniques help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Nicola also uses elements of attachment-focused work to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. She applies mindfulness and acceptance ideas from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when clients want tools to manage strong feelings in the moment.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to what feels manageable for the individual. She describes her approach as trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming, emphasising autonomy and respect. Nicola aims to create a calm, compassionate space where people can talk through what’s difficult and build practical coping skills.
She encourages clients to draw on their own strengths while trying out new ways of coping. Many people come for help with relationships, parenting stresses, sleep and eating difficulties, addictive behaviours, or work-related strain. Nicola offers a steady, listening presence while helping people take small steps toward change.
What Nicola works with
How Nicola works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings while taking action aligned with their values. It offers simple exercises for handling distress and can help with anxiety, stress and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and provides practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns and improve day-to-day functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current emotional patterns and can be useful when someone wants to understand repeated relational difficulties.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Nicola will work with each person to decide which ideas and techniques feel most helpful given their situation, goals and preferences. Sessions adapt over time so the approach can change as progress and needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can suit those who prefer writing or need brief, frequent support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life or mobility needs while working with registered or accredited professionals and therapists.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
