Nicole Barry
Practical, collaborative online counselling
About Nicole
Nicole Barry is a counsellor with five years' experience. She works online from the United Kingdom and aims to help people feel heard and move towards practical change. Nicole focuses on making sessions fit each person and supports clients who are navigating stress, anxiety, depression and relationship or family concerns.
She offers a calm and non-judgemental space and keeps the pace guided by the client. Sessions can include practical coping strategies and space to talk things through.
Background and approach
Nicole also provides regular messaging check-ins to keep progress on track between sessions. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, career stress and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with attachment or abandonment issues, body image, codependency and chronic illness or pain.
Nicole draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. That can include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, attachment-focused work and emotionally-focused methods. She aims to blend these so sessions feel personal rather than formulaic.
People can expect straightforward language, practical tools and collaborative goal-setting. Nicole is registered with the BACP, works in English and sees international clients. Her sessions are delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
What Nicole works with
How Nicole works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches you can use in online counselling
Nicole often blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy when working online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help with intimacy-related issues, abandonment feelings and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicole will talk through your goals and preferences and choose methods together. That collaborative planning means the focus can change over time as needs shift and progress is made.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow more conversational work and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer typing. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, family or health needs while keeping continuity of care with a registered professional.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
