Nicola 'Nikki' Crosby, BACP, NCPS

Nicola 'Nikki' Crosby helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and depression. She welcomes straightforward conversations and aims to make the first step into therapy feel easier for someone who is worried or unsure.

Nikki keeps sessions simple and practical. She listens without judging and helps people say what matters to them. Sessions are a place to talk through feelings, look at patterns, and try small changes that can help day to day.

With four years of professional experience and credentials with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, NCPS, she brings steady support to common and complex concerns. Her background includes work with abandonment and attachment issues, communication problems, codependency and commitment difficulties.

She also supports people navigating autism and Asperger syndrome, avoidant and dependent personality traits, dissociation, and the emotional effects of divorce, separation or domestic violence. Nikki works with those coping with blended family issues, family problems and the distress that follows natural or human-caused disasters.

Sessions focus on what the client needs in the moment. Nikki helps people map out goals, practice new ways of responding, and track progress over time. The tone is warm, clear and practical to help clients build confidence between sessions.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques in her work focus on listening carefully and helping people recognise unhelpful patterns. One common approach helps people map their thoughts, feelings and behaviours to spot repeating reactions and try small experiments to change them. This is useful for anxiety, stress and low mood because it makes problems clearer and gives practical steps to test.

Another strand concentrates on attachment and relationship patterns, helping people understand how past relationships influence current trust, closeness and communication. This helps when someone struggles with abandonment, commitment or communication problems by offering new ways to relate and practise different responses.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals and preferences, and will adapt methods as those needs change. This collaborative process aims to find what fits best for each person.

Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial expressions and have a fuller conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit sessions around work, childcare and daily life while keeping the focus on progress.