Nicola Moran
Compassionate integrative psychotherapy for everyday struggles
About Nicola
Nicola Moran is a psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She draws on ten years of direct therapeutic work and a longer background in health and wellbeing to support people facing stress, anxiety and life transitions. Nicola approaches each person as an individual and builds therapy around their needs.
She takes an integrative approach, mixing methods so sessions match what a person needs that week.
Background and approach
That might mean looking at patterns of thought, paying attention to attachment history, or using mindfulness to ground difficult moments. Conversations are practical and paced to help someone feel more able to manage day-to-day challenges. Nicola has experience supporting people with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, sleep problems, motivation struggles and compassion fatigue.
She also works with concerns linked to ADHD, relationships and identity, including LGBT issues. Her wider interests include caring roles, chronic illness, body image and communication problems. She believes people know their own stories and that therapy is a place to try things out and find what helps.
Sessions aim to build clearer thinking, stronger coping and more reliable emotional safety. Nicola uses straightforward language and practical tools rather than jargon. People come to Nicola wanting relief from overwhelm and steadier day-to-day functioning.
She offers a respectful, collaborative style and helps people set small, achievable steps. The focus is on real changes that make life easier and more rewarding.
What Nicola works with
How Nicola works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online sessions and how they help
Nicola commonly draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques in online work. Attachment-based approaches look at how early relationships shape current ways of relating and help people understand patterns that affect close connections. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Nicola will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try methods together to see what helps. That collaborative exploration means the plan can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone sessions work well when video is difficult or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, note-taking between sessions or people who express themselves better in writing. These options help therapy fit around work, caregiving and travel, while still allowing regular, consistent contact with a therapist.
| 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
