Nicky Owen
Compassionate counsellor emphasising strengths and practical change
About Nicky
Nicky Owen is a counsellor with 20 years of practice in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with relationships, grief, stress and mood difficulties.
Her work often centres on everyday problems that pile up - parenting strain, communication breakdowns, low self‑esteem, and coping with big life changes. She also supports people facing trauma, addiction concerns, anger, and intimacy-related difficulties.
Background and approach
ADHD and a range of family-related challenges are among the areas she addresses. Nicky takes a collaborative, respectful approach. She treats people as the expert on their own lives and builds on their existing strengths.
Sessions aim to be practical and clear, with space to talk through feelings and make steady changes. She uses a mixture of approaches to suit the person in front of her rather than sticking to one fixed method. That can mean working on emotional bonds and attachment, focusing on present problems and solutions, or addressing the impact of past trauma.
The choice of method depends on the issue and the persons goals. Nicky works in English and accepts international clients. Her straightforward style is aimed at people who want honest listening and practical steps to move forward.
She invites anyone who is ready to begin to take the first practical step and complete the matching process to arrange sessions.
What Nicky works with
How Nicky works
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Sessions & fees
How therapy approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and behaviours; online sessions explore patterns in current relationships and help people build safer emotional connections. Client-centred therapy puts the persons experience at the centre, offering non-judgemental listening and helping people find their own ways forward, which suits talking through worries and life decisions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotions in relationships and helps people identify, name and shift hurtful interaction patterns.Nicky treats the choice of approach as a collaborative task. She will listen to the issues you bring and discuss which methods feel most useful. Together you can try approaches and adapt them as goals and needs become clearer.
Online work is offered through several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or a simpler check-in, live chat for shorter focused exchanges, and text-based messaging for ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and let people pick what feels most practical for them.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
