Nicola Kassam
Calm, practical support for life’s hard moments
About Nicola
Nicola Kassam practises a person-centred approach that puts the client at the heart of each session. She blends client-centred work with existential thinking, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to help people address stress, anxiety and low mood. Nicola aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult feelings and consider practical steps forward.
She has five years of direct therapeutic experience and additional background in careers, employability and welfare from a ten-year career in further and higher education.
Background and approach
That work informs how she helps with career decisions, confidence and navigating practical life changes. Nicola draws on this combined experience to offer grounded support for pressing life concerns. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual.
Conversations may explore meaning and values, help build motivation, or develop simple mindfulness practices to manage stress. Nicola will listen closely and work at the client’s pace. The aim is to help people make small, manageable changes that improve day-to-day life.
She also supports people dealing with family problems, grief, trauma and eating-related worries, including adoption and foster care matters, autism-related concerns, chronic health issues and military-related topics. Nicola is mindful of cultural differences and attends to feelings of isolation and shame that can accompany complex issues. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Nicola uses a conversational, practical style and encourages people to bring specific goals or questions to sessions. If someone is unsure where to begin, she helps them set a clear starting point.
What Nicola works with
How Nicola works
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Listed by Nicola among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Nicola uses client-centred work to start from the person’s own concerns and priorities. This approach means sessions begin with what matters most to the client and proceed at their pace. It is useful for people who want a respectful space to talk and make sense of feelings.She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help manage stress and anxiety. Mindfulness in practice can include brief exercises to calm the body and bring attention back to the present, which can be used between sessions to reduce overwhelm.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and preferences, then try methods that suit the person’s situation. Adjustments are made as progress is reviewed, so the approach can shift if another way of working feels more helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when lower bandwidth or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send short updates or check in between booked sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work and family commitments and to access help from other locations.
| 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
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
