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Nicola Murray, BACP

Nicola Murray is a counsellor with six years' experience supporting people through anxiety, stress and life changes.

Stress, Anxiety
LGBT
Relationship issues
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About Nicola

Nicola Murray is a counsellor with six years' experience supporting people through anxiety, stress and life changes. She works with adults who feel overwhelmed by relationships, grief, work pressure or difficult patterns that keep repeating. Nicola holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP in her credentials, and she offers sessions in English to people in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Her background includes core training in cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, and she draws on several other approaches to suit each person.

Background and approach

Nicola aims to work with clients side by side to find practical ways to manage symptoms and try new ways of relating. She keeps sessions straightforward and action-focused when that helps, and more reflective when people need space to understand past patterns.

Issues Nicola commonly helps with include relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, ADHD, low self-esteem and sleep or eating problems. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, caregiver stress and the effects of separation or divorce. Additional focus areas listed include attachment difficulties, abandonment, autism and aspects of alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink.

Her style mixes problem-solving techniques with attention to emotions and attachment. That can mean learning short practical skills one week and using deeper conversations the next. Nicola aims to help people notice repeating patterns, try small changes and build better coping strategies.

Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules. To begin, clients use the site matching process to be paired and then arrange sessions based on availability.

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Registration

Body	Registration number	Expires
BACP	392558	January 2027

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Sessions and payment

Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.

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Focus areas and approaches

Everything Nicola lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
LGBT
Relationship issues
Intimacy-related issues
ADHD
Addictions
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Eating disorders
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Depression
Coping with life changes
Compassion fatigue
Abandonment
Attachment issues
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Avoidant personality
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Blended family issues
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Dependent personality
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fatherhood issues
Fertility issues
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hoarding
Immigration issues
Impulsivity
Infidelity
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
Phobias
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-love
Sex addiction
Sexual assault and abuse
Sexual dysfunction
Sexuality
Smoking / vaping cessation
Social anxiety and phobia
Trichotillomania
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Ways of working Nicola names

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Therapeutic approaches and online support

Nicola commonly uses cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and testing new ways of responding to them. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems by offering clear steps to try between sessions.

She also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that reflect their values. ACT can be useful for coping with ongoing distress, trauma reactions and work or caregiver stress. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how early patterns affect current relationships and intimacy, helping people understand repeated conflicts and build different ways of connecting.

Finding the right approach is a joint process. Nicola will discuss options with each person and adapt methods to their goals and preferences. Decisions about which techniques to use are made together and can change as therapy progresses.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to give flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and exercises, phone calls can fit into busy days, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel while keeping therapy consistent.

Frequently asked

What concerns does Nicola commonly help with?

She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship or intimacy issues, along with trauma and abuse, grief and addictions. Other areas include ADHD, sleep and eating problems, low self-esteem and career worries.

What is Nicola's therapeutic style?

Her approach is collaborative and practical, combining problem-solving techniques with space to explore emotions and attachment patterns. Sessions can vary between short skills work and deeper reflective conversations.

How much experience does she have?

Nicola has six years of experience working with adults on a range of issues including relationship patterns, trauma, anxiety and caregiver stress.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is listed with BACP and practises from the United Kingdom. The profile uses the credential exactly as supplied: BACP.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English and Nicola accepts international clients as part of her practice.

What session formats are offered?

Clients can meet by video call, phone session, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How does pricing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin working with Nicola?

Start by clicking the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.