Nicola Ellis

• Stress and anxiety
• Attachment and relationships
• Mindfulness and hypnotherapy

About Nicola

Nicola Ellis works with stress, anxiety, trauma, relationships and a wide range of life challenges using a person-centred, integrative style. She combines a BA (Hons) in Person-Centred Counselling and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology with six years of practice. Nicola is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

She focuses on practical, conversational counselling that helps people talk through what is worrying them. Sessions are guided by the person-centred approach, which places the client’s perspective at the centre of each meeting. Nicola also draws on attachment ideas and mindfulness to help with emotional regulation and relationship concerns.

Nicola works with a broad set of issues, including depression, self-esteem, grief, addiction, neurodiversity and parenting strain. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, chronic illness and carer stress. Shorter concerns, longer-term difficulties and life transitions are within her remit.

Her approach tends to be collaborative and paced to the individual. She uses conversational techniques alongside narrative methods and, where suitable, hypnotherapy to address patterns and unhelpful thinking. Imago relationship ideas may be used when discussing intimacy and partnership dynamics.

Sessions can be arranged from the UK and Nicola accepts international clients. Fees vary by location and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients use the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire and book an initial appointment.

How her methods translate to online counselling

Nicola works from a person-centred framework that places the client’s perspective first and values a conversational pace. This approach helps people reflect on immediate concerns and set the agenda for each session.

Attachment-based ideas are used to look at relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current connections; this can help with grief, intimacy issues and recurring conflict. Mindfulness therapy involves simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation, which is useful for anxiety and stress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Nicola will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods together with the client in a collaborative way.

The biography lists online, telephone and text-based options, but session formats should be confirmed before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed and remove travel time. Telephone sessions can use less bandwidth and be a practical choice for a quick conversation, while text-based contact can suit people who prefer typed reflection. Registered or accredited professionals can work effectively across these formats when they match the client’s needs.

Topics Nicola lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Trauma and abuse
• Self-esteem
• Depression
• ADHD
• Addictions
• LGBT
• Relationship issues
• Family conflicts
• Grief
• Intimacy-related issues
• Eating disorders
• Sleeping disorders
• Parenting issues
• Anger management
• Career difficulties
• Bipolar disorder
• Coping with life changes
• Compassion fatigue
• Abandonment
• Adoption and foster care
• Aging and geriatric issues
• Antisocial personality
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Avoidant personality
• Blended family issues
• Body image
• Cancer
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Chronic pain, illness, and disability
• Co-morbidity
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Communication problems
• Control issues
• Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
• Dependent personality
• Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
• Dissociation
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic violence
• Drug and alcohol addiction
• Eating and food-related issues
• Emptiness
• Family of origin issues
• Family problems
• Fatherhood issues
• Fertility issues
• Forgiveness
• Gender dysphoria
• Guilt and shame
• HIV and AIDS
• Hoarding
• Impulsivity
• Infidelity
• Intellectual disability
• Isolation and loneliness
• Jealousy
• Life purpose
• Men's issues
• Midlife crisis
• Veteran and armed forces issues
• Money and financial issues
• Mood disorders
• Multicultural concerns
• Narcissism
• Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
• Panic disorder and panic attacks
• Paranoia
• Personality disorders
• Phobias
• Polyamory and non-monogamous relationships
• Postpartum depression
• Post-traumatic stress
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Process addictions
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Self-harm
• Self-love
• Sex addiction
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Sexuality
• Quitting smoking or vaping
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Somatization
• Trichotillomania
• Visually impaired
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues
• Young adult issues

Ways of working

• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Hypnotherapy
• Imago Relationship Therapy
• Mindfulness Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Therapy
• Internal Family Systems

Questions about Nicola

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety and stress are listed areas she works with, and she uses person-centred and mindfulness approaches to help manage symptoms.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She offers person-centred, integrative counselling and draws on attachment-based, narrative and mindfulness methods.

How much experience does she have?

She has six years of experience in counselling practice.

Is she accredited and where is she based?

She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is based in the United Kingdom.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

The original biography mentions online, telephone and text-based sessions; please confirm the current session options before booking.

How much do sessions cost?

Fees vary with location; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I get started with Nicola?

Use the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.