Nicole Barry, BACP
5 years in practice
Nicole Barry is a counsellor with five years of practice who focuses on helping people feel heard and make meaningful change.
License and registration
- BACP
- 389087 · expires October 2026
- 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 Nicole
Nicole Barry is a counsellor with five years of practice who focuses on helping people feel heard and make meaningful change. She holds BACP accreditation and works online with individuals from the UK and abroad. Nicole aims to create a calm, steady space where clients can talk through what matters most to them.
She offers short messaging check-ins as well as video calls, phone sessions and text-based therapy. Sessions move at a pace that suits each person, with treatment shaped to match individual needs and goals.
Background and approach
Many people come to her for anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and depression. Nicole also supports people dealing with relationship and family strain, grief, trauma and addiction concerns. She works with issues that affect daily life like sleep, eating, anger and career stress.
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image and caregiver stress. Her style is warm and non-judgemental. She aims to collaborate so clients feel involved in planning their work and making steady progress.
Nicole encourages practical steps between sessions and regular check-ins to track change. Therapy draws on several approaches, including Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Nicole adapts these methods to what each person needs, keeping explanations straightforward and concrete.
She welcomes people from different backgrounds and offers sessions in English.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Nicole lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Nicole names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Nicole commonly draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and change difficult emotional patterns in relationships and personal life. This approach focuses on identifying core emotions and how they shape interactions and choices.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her work too, offering clear strategies to address mood, sleep and behaviour by testing thoughts and trying different actions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will ask about goals, past approaches and personal preferences, then try methods that feel like a good match. This collaborative process can be adjusted as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which gives flexibility for different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can use less bandwidth, live chat can fit a short check-in and messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can be discussed?
Nicole works with common problems such as stress, anxiety, depression and self-esteem. She also supports people with relationship or family strain, trauma, grief and addiction-related issues.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
The style is warm, calm and non-judgemental. Nicole likes to collaborate and set a pace that suits each person while offering practical steps between sessions.
What experience does the counsellor have?
She has five years of counselling experience working with a wide range of concerns and tailoring treatment to individual needs.
What credentials and location are listed?
Nicole holds BACP accreditation and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy is available by video call, phone session, live chat or text-based messaging, plus regular messaging check-ins between sessions.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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