Nicola Murray
Supportive counsellor for anxiety and relationship patterns
About Nicola
Nicola Murray is a counsellor with six years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and offers therapy for adults facing anxiety, depression, stress and related life challenges. Nicola takes a straightforward, compassionate approach so people feel heard and guided from the first session.
She uses a mix of well-known methods, including cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy, tailored to each person's needs. Nicola focuses on practical tools you can use between sessions to reduce anxiety, sleep better and manage overwhelming emotions.
Background and approach
She also helps people who are dealing with grief, trauma, addiction or career strain. Intimacy, trust and relationship patterns are areas of particular interest. Nicola supports people who want to understand repeating behaviours, improve communication and rebuild connection.
She uses techniques from attachment-based work and the Gottman Method to look at patterns and create step-by-step changes. Sessions are conversational and collaborative. Nicola aims to make therapy feel like a partnership where goals are agreed together.
She will offer homework or exercises when they help, and check in on progress week to week. Nicola welcomes clients who identify as LGBT and people navigating parenting stress, blended family issues or caregiver burdens. She also brings experience with ADHD, autism traits, eating and sleeping difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
If someone prefers online support, she provides a range of remote session formats to fit different routines.
What Nicola works with
How Nicola works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Nicola uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviours. CBT is practical and often focuses on small experiments to test new ways of coping with anxiety, low mood or sleep problems. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another approach she uses which helps people clarify their values and take committed steps towards them while learning to sit with difficult thoughts or feelings.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current connections. That work can help with trust, intimacy issues and repeated relationship patterns. Choosing the right approach is a shared process - Nicola will discuss different options and help decide what fits best based on a person's goals, preferences and what has or hasn't worked before.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to access this work. Video calls allow a face-to-face experience when convenient, phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and allow continuity of care across 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
