Nicola Kassam, BACP

Nicola Kassam is a counsellor who uses a person-centred way of working. She focuses on helping people talk through stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship difficulties. Nicola also supports people managing grief, trauma and eating concerns, and she draws on her background in careers and employability to help with work-related strain.

Nicola creates a calm space where clients can say what matters to them. She listens without judgment and helps people find their own priorities and next steps. Sessions are aimed at practical change as well as understanding painful feelings.

She blends client-centred listening with existential ideas about meaning and choice. Mindfulness practices are used to help people manage intense emotions. Motivational Interviewing is brought in when someone wants help finding motivation or making a life change.

Nicola has five years' experience working directly with people in therapeutic roles and ten years' experience in further and higher education supporting careers, employability and welfare. That combined experience informs how she helps clients explore work stress and life transitions.

She works with a wide range of concerns including chronic pain, adoption and foster care issues, multicultural challenges, isolation and veteran-related matters. Nicola holds BACP accreditation and offers sessions from the United Kingdom. Sessions are conducted in English and international clients are accepted.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Nicola works from a person-centred foundation, which means a focus on listening and following what matters to the client. This approach helps when people need a space to be heard and to explore difficult feelings such as anxiety or grief.

She also uses mindfulness practices to help manage strong emotions and increase present-moment awareness. Mindfulness can be useful for stress, chronic pain and eating-related difficulties by training attention and reducing reactivity.

Motivational Interviewing is used to support change when someone feels stuck or lacks confidence to act. It focuses on clarifying goals and strengthening a person's own reasons for change in a collaborative way.

Finding the right approach is part of the work, and Nicola treats that as a joint process. She will discuss options, try different techniques and adjust the plan based on the client's needs, goals and preferences.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking, as the profile does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, remove travel time and allow short check-ins between commitments. Different arrangements can suit quieter spaces, lower bandwidth needs or shorter appointments, and Nicola will help choose what fits your life.