Nicole Uprichard, BACP

Nicole Uprichard brings eight years of therapeutic practice to her counselling and coaching work in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, and she offers both short-term and longer-term support depending on what someone needs. Nicole combines a trauma-informed perspective with practical steps to help a person move forward.

She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. She also helps with trauma and abuse, addictions, anger and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. Practical issues such as parenting pressures, career stress, body image and chronic illness are also within her remit.

Nicole uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She may draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, somatic methods or solution-focused work depending on the issue. Client-centred listening is part of how she starts, to understand what matters most to the individual.

Sessions balance talking and action. Nicole aims to make sense of patterns, while also helping someone try new ways of coping. For some people that means building skills to manage anxiety, for others it means exploring the impact of past trauma and learning ways to feel more grounded.

She also offers coaching for people wanting forward-looking, goal-based work. That can be used alongside counselling, for example when someone wants to process difficult feelings and also take practical steps in their life. People can expect a calm, direct approach focused on clear next steps.

How Nicole’s approaches work online

Nicole commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy when working with people online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps a person notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then focus on taking values-based action despite them. It can help with anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises empathic listening and supporting the person to find their own solutions, which is useful when someone needs a steady space to make sense of things and build self-trust.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviours. CBT is practical and problem-focused, which can suit people wanting clear coping strategies for anxiety, depression or stress. Together these approaches let the therapist tailor sessions to what each person needs and prefers; finding the best combination is a collaborative process between the therapist and the client.

Online work can be done by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and reading non-verbal cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around daily life and different routines.