About Nicola
Nicola Claydon NCPS helps people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, depression and addiction. She also supports clients dealing with parenting stress, compassion fatigue, anger, low self-esteem, career changes and ADHD. Nicola is listed for LGBT concerns and works with many related life challenges.
Nicola keeps conversations straightforward and respectful. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make sense of painful events, reduce overwhelming feelings and find practical steps to move forward. Her background includes placements supporting adult survivors of sexual abuse. She has also worked with families bereaved by suicide, supported care workers after lockdown and aided people moving from homelessness into supported accommodation.
Nicola has four years of professional experience and holds NCPS, which is shown as her credential. In addition to her placement work, she sees people in independent practice who bring a wide range of concerns. Her approach blends attachment-based thinking with client-centred listening and practical techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness.
Psychodynamic and trauma-focused ideas also inform how she helps clients understand patterns from the past. People can expect a calm, non-judgemental space where Nicola will help them make choices about next steps. Her style is warm, steady and focused on what the person wants to change in day-to-day life.
What Nicola works with
Everything Nicola lists, in their own terms. LGBT is the reason Nicola is listed here; the rest shows what else Nicola works with.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Nicola lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Nicola draws on attachment-based ideas to notice how important relationships shape feelings and behaviour. This helps when relationship patterns cause anxiety, mistrust or difficulties in close connections.She also uses client-centred counselling, which means she listens carefully and follows what the person brings to each session. This approach helps people feel heard and decide which topics to tackle first.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicola will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs with each person and together decide which methods to try. The process is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.
If you are considering online therapy, check which session formats Nicola currently offers before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They also make it possible to work across time zones for international clients. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists often find that talking remotely still supports meaningful change, while letting people arrange sessions around family, work and other commitments.
Questions people ask about Nicola
What kinds of problems does Nicola help with?
She supports people with relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, depression, addictions and ADHD among other issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Nicola uses a calm, non-judgemental manner and treats the client as the expert of their story while offering practical steps and emotional support.
What experience does she bring?
She has four years of professional experience and has worked with adult survivors of sexual abuse, bereaved families, care workers and people leaving homelessness into supported accommodation.
What credentials and location apply?
Her listed credential is NCPS and she practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and Nicola accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography did not list specific session formats; please confirm the available session types before booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Nicola?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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