Nicola Martin
Practical support for anxiety and relationships
About Nicola
Nicola Martin helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, and major life changes. She offers simple coping strategies for overwhelming emotions and practical steps to manage day-to-day challenges. Nicola presents information plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
Nicola draws on an integrative counselling background, which means she selects techniques from different therapeutic models to suit each person.
Background and approach
She meets people where they are and focuses on helping them feel heard and clearer about what is happening in their lives. Sessions look at feelings, patterns in relationships, and ways to reduce distress. Her work includes supporting people affected by anxiety, depression, and survivors of sexual assault.
Nicola listens for the origins of difficult feelings and helps people find ways to move forward. She explains options and suggests coping tools that can be practised between sessions. Nicola also addresses problems linked to abandonment, attachment, control, commitment, jealousy, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
She helps people untangle these issues and develop better emotional responses over time. With three years of experience and BACP registration, Nicola works with adults in the United Kingdom. Sessions can be conducted by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can choose the format that fits their life.
What Nicola works with
Sessions & fees
How therapeutic techniques translate to online care
Nicola uses an integrative counselling approach, combining techniques from different evidence-based methods to suit each person. That might include talking through past experiences to understand current feelings, and learning practical coping tools to reduce anxiety and manage mood swings. These techniques often help with stress, relationship problems, and trauma-related reactions.Another common element is skills-based work focused on regulating strong emotions. This involves short exercises and simple strategies people can practise between sessions to lower overwhelm and respond differently in challenging moments. These tools are useful for panic, persistent worry, and emotional intensity linked to relationship problems.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, current difficulties, and personal preferences, and then suggest options to try. Plans can be adjusted as the work progresses so the approach fits the person's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter updates or reflective work between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel, while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
