Nicola Fiveash, NCPS
5 years in practice
Nicola Fiveash is a UK-based counsellor with five years of practice.
License and registration
- NCPS
- NCS23-00569 · expires February 2027
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Nicola
Nicola Fiveash is a UK-based counsellor with five years of practice. She draws on a mix of approaches to meet people where they are and tailor sessions to individual needs. Nicola uses her NCPS credential in her work and aims to create a calm, respectful space for conversation.
She focuses on common pressures such as stress, anxiety, low mood and grief. Nicola also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, life changes, career concerns and challenges linked to neurodivergence.
Background and approach
Practical worries like sleeping, eating and addictions are included in her offer. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions centre on listening first, then gently exploring thoughts, feelings and patterns that get in the way.
She uses client-centred and cognitive approaches to help identify unhelpful thinking and try different ways of coping. Nicola also works with attachment themes and uses acceptance-based methods to build values-led action. Hypnotherapy is one of the approaches she includes when it fits a person’s needs and goals.
Her practice aims to be trauma-informed and affirming of neurodiversity. People often come to Nicola when life feels overwhelming, when loss or past events keep returning, or when they want clearer direction. She offers steady support at a pace that feels right for the individual, focusing on small, manageable changes as well as deeper emotional work.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Nicola lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Nicola names
- Hypnotherapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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Online support
Approaches and online support that fit your life
Nicola draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside hypnotherapy when appropriate. ACT encourages people to notice unhelpful thoughts and then commit to small actions that reflect what matters to them, which can help with anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses, useful for relationship worries, abandonment themes and attachment issues. Hypnotherapy is used as a complementary tool to support relaxation, focus and changing habitual responses when a person and therapist agree it might help.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nicola will explore your goals, needs and preferences and suggest techniques that suit you. That planning is collaborative and can change over time as you try things and notice what helps.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video works well for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can fit around busy days or provide brief, ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life or other commitments and to keep continuity between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of issues does Nicola help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma, as well as problems with sleep, eating, addictions and career concerns.
What is Nicola’s therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, combining client-centred listening with cognitive and acceptance-based techniques to explore thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
How long has she been practising?
Nicola has five years of experience working with adults on a range of emotional and practical difficulties.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She holds NCPS and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time and works with people in the United Kingdom.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are fees and the subscription handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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