Nick Shepley, BACP

Nick Shepley is a counsellor with seven years of practice based in the United Kingdom. He holds BACP accreditation, and works with people who are coping with addictions, low mood, anxiety and shifts in self-esteem. He aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so people feel heard and understood. Nick offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through difficult feelings. He treats sessions as a collaboration, helping people notice patterns in their thinking and behaviour. Conversations often focus on small, achievable steps that fit into everyday life. His background includes working with a wide range of concerns such as relationship strain, family problems, grief and trauma. He also supports people dealing with eating and body image issues, drug and alcohol dependency, and struggles around intimacy and abandonment. Nick draws on approaches that help unpack past experiences while also building concrete coping strategies. In practice he blends cognitive and narrative methods alongside motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas. That mix means sessions can look different depending on what someone needs - sometimes examining the story a person tells about themselves, sometimes practising skills to manage stress or cravings. People typically use his sessions to find clearer ways of handling anger, parenting pressures, career stress and life transitions. He also works with those facing compassion fatigue and career coaching concerns. Early work focuses on what the client wants to change and how to get there in realistic steps.

How Nick uses therapy approaches online

Nick regularly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing in his work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try practical strategies to change mood and behaviour, which is useful for anxiety, depression and sleep problems. Motivational Interviewing focuses on a person's own reasons for change and helps build motivation for issues like addiction or lifestyle shifts.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Nick works collaboratively to decide which methods suit someone best, based on their goals, history and preferences. That means sessions can focus on steady skill-building, exploring life stories, or boosting motivation as needed.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit short check-ins or people who prefer typing. These formats aim to make it easier to keep regular contact and to fit therapy around everyday life.