Nichola Jean Psychotherapy
COUNSELLor & COACH: online UK and IN Plymouth
Welcome to
Nichola Jean Psychotherapy
Counselling & Coaching
ONLINE UK & in Plymouth, Devon
I'm Niki - an accredited & qualified Counsellor & Coach
Your Path to Authentic Growth
If you are looking for deeper emotional insight, navigating life's challenges, or striving to make meaningful changes, you are in the right place. Let us work together to help you discover how to live as your authentic self and unlock your full potential.
- Tailored Support: your personality, lifestyle, and unique situation guide our therapeutic work.
- Collaborative Process: we gently reflect on your past, connect with your inner voice, and build self-trust.
- Flexible Sessions: available ONLINE across the UK or in person in Plymouth, Devon.
- Inclusive Care: proudly offering a safe, respectful, and neuro-affirming space for adults and young people (14+).
My Holistic Approach
Your healing journey is unique. I integrate multiple powerful modalities to build a bespoke path that supports your specific needs:
- Counselling & Psychotherapy: deep psychological exploration for lasting internal shifts.
- Life Coaching: action-oriented strategies to achieve your personal goals.
- Somatic Therapy: mind-body connection techniques to release stored tension and trauma.
- Hypnotherapy: gentle subconscious work to break through deep-seated blocks.
Specialised Support Areas
I provide dedicated, expert care to help you manage, navigate, and overcome a wide range of challenges:
- Anxiety & Depression: finding calm, balance, and renewed daily energy.
- Trauma & PTSD: processing difficult past experiences safely.
- Neurodivergence: specialised, understanding support for ADHD and Autism.
- Relationships: building healthier connections and clearer personal boundaries.
- Personal Growth: navigating life transitions and self-discovery.
Meet Your Therapist
I bring many years of experience, a wealth of professional training, and deep empathy to our sessions. I provide a secure, fully insured, and boundaried space where genuine human connection sits at the centre of your healing. I am here to walk alongside you every step of the way.
Person Centred & Cognitive Behavioural Counsellor and Coach working
ONLINE UK wide and in person:
Plymouth, Plympton, Plymstock, Saltash, Devon
An Integrated Approach to Counselling and Coaching
A Tailored, Intuitive Approach to Your Well-Being
I offer a unique blend of counselling and coaching designed specifically for you. By combining the reflective nature of counselling (being with) with the action-oriented focus of coaching (doing with), we cultivate both deep personal insight and practical progress.
The Whole-Person Framework
Our work together honours your complete journey by focusing on the "whole you" across three dimensions of time:
- Past You: understanding how earlier experiences and patterns affect your present life.
- Present You: discovering the choices, strengths, and insights you can use right now.
- Future You: identifying your goals, values, and hopes for the life you want to build.
Integrative Modalities
Your bespoke treatment plan blends evidence-based therapies and psycho-education to meet your individual needs and support lasting change:
- Person-Centred Therapy: providing a compassionate, non-judgmental space for self-discovery.
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): identifying and reshaping unhelpful thought patterns.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: constructing practical, forward-moving strategies.
- Somatic Therapy & Hypnotherapy: accessing deeper subconscious and body-based healing.
Regulating Your Nervous System
Unresolved stress, trauma, and emotional patterns are often stored directly within the nervous system. When these patterns remain unprocessed, they quietly shape how you think, feel, and react.
My approach integrates body-based awareness with focused inner attention to safely release what your body is holding:
- Creating Internal Safety: using guided breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, or visualisations to calm the nervous system.
- Shifting Brain States: moving the brain into a regulated state to open up space for healing.
- Decoding Body Signals: tuning into tension, numbness, or movement impulses to process past experiences.
- Inside-Out Transformation: fostering emotional clarity and nervous system regulation so you can live fully in the present.
About Me
I am deeply passionate about my work and feel genuinely honoured to walk alongside my clients on their journeys of personal development.
I view my role as one of dedicated service - committed to offering you my full support within safe, ethical, and professional boundaries.
Experience & Background
My therapeutic background is grounded in supporting diverse age groups through complex life transitions:
- Educational Counselling & Coaching: years of experience working with adults and adolescents (14+) within a local College of Further and Higher Education, supporting student emotional health, well-being, and personal growth.
- Diverse Life Experience: prior to becoming a therapist, I built a rich career across retail sales and management, property management, administration, and hospitality.
- Community & Local Government: valuable experience working within the local authority, including Youth Services and Democratic Support.
Why this matters to you: having lived and worked across many different industries, I bring a down-to-earth, well-rounded, and deeply empathetic understanding of the everyday pressures, career stress, and systemic challenges my clients face.
Professional Qualifications
Continuous professional development is an integral part of my work ethic. I constantly update my training to ensure you receive the highest standard of evidence-based care:
- BSc (Hons) in Health and Social Care Management
- Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
- Postgraduate Certificate (PGCE) in Coaching and Mentoring
- Specialised Training: Trauma Informed Practice, Solution-Focused Therapy and Neurodivergence-affirming qualifications, alongside numerous ongoing professional development.
Take the First Step
Ready to see how we can work together? I offer a free, no-obligation 30-minute consultation to discuss your needs and answer any questions you may have.
Qualifications | Certificates
YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT, BUT YOU’VE ALREADY TAKEN THE FIRST STEP...
Making the decision to reach out to a counsellor can feel scary and confusing. Yet, in my experience, many people struggle alone with mental health challenges, wellbeing concerns, personal crises, or relationship difficulties far longer than is healthy.
While friends can often offer comfort and support, sometimes that help only takes you so far. Recognising that you need something more - and being willing to seek it - is actually a powerful and important first step toward healing, growth, and reducing anxiety.
You don’t have to face these challenges alone. Seeking support is a courageous act of self-care and strength. Together, we can create a safe space where you feel heard and understood. I will guide you to live your life in the present on a path of your choosing.
Whether you’re looking to manage anxiety, work through difficult emotions, or simply find greater balance in your life, I’m here to support you every step of the way.
When you’re ready, I’m ready to listen.
Contact Me
Feel free to contact me via the form below if you have any questions about how I work. We can arrange a free 30 minute initial consultation to talk about your needs, you can ask any questions and we can work out whether I am the right therapist for you.
You can also text me on 07572 989543 and I will text back to arrange a time that we are mutually available to discuss your needs and how I can help you. Please note I can't always answer a phone call as my phone maybe on silent. However, I will text back to arrange a mutually agreeable time to talk.
Location
I work ONLINE UK WIDE
For those who live local to Plymouth, Devon I have a private and comfortable garden therapy room in the PL3. Which means I am able to offer in person appointments for anyone within the Plymouth, Plympton, Plymstock, Saltash, Ivybridge, Sherford, Tavistock, Ivybridge, Wembury, Callington and the surrounding areas within Devon and East Cornwall.
There is free street parking available, it is easily accessed from the city centre and is on a bus route. More precise location details will be provided when you book your first appointment with me.
For Mobile in person therapy, there will be an additional charge depending on the extra travel time.
Fees | Payment information
Clear Boundaries for a Safe and Effective Therapeutic Process
To ensure our counselling, coaching, or hypnotherapy sessions run smoothly and professionally, I maintain a clear framework regarding session logistics, fees, and cancellations. This structural clarity allows us to focus entirely on your therapeutic growth and well-being during our time together.
Please read these terms carefully before booking. By scheduling a session with me, you agree to these practical and clinical terms of business.
Fees:
- Free initial Consultation: up to 30 minutes
- Pay-As-You-Go: £60 for an individual one-hour session.
- Block Booking: I offer a 7% discount when purchasing 6 sessions. Total fee: £334.80 (equivalent to £55.80 per session). Paid in full before the start of 2nd session. Please note: All 6 sessions must be booked in advance and completed within 6 months of purchase.
- Student rate, Blue Light Card Holders: £50 per individual one-hour session for full and part-time students and Blue Light Card holders. To qualify for this rate, you must provide valid proof before your first session. Concession slots are limited and subject to availability.
- Therapy in your own home (Plymouth area): price on application.
Below, you will find full transparency regarding my after-session invoicing system, BACS payment methods, flexible online/telephone attendance alternatives, and my compassionate 24-hour cancellation policy. If you are a full-time student or a Blue Light Card holder, please remember to mention this when getting in touch so your concession rate can be applied.
My Commitment to Your Privacy & Data Protection
Your trust, confidentiality, and data security are fundamental to the therapeutic work we do together.
In accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Data Use and Access Act 2025, I operate as a registered Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO registration: ZB377976).
The transparent notice below outlines exactly how your personal data, special category information, and clinical session notes are securely collected, stored, and managed within my practice. It also details your statutory data rights, including how to make a Subject Access Request (SAR) or file a data handling complaint.
Please click the button below to read the full terms of my Privacy Policy carefully before booking your sessions.
Testimonials
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- Mental imagery uses aspects of hypnosis and can takes up around 20 minutes.
- You will need an open mind and be open to change.
- You will need to embrace your imagination and subconscious mind.
- You will use your imagination to access the answers that are deep in your subconscious mind.
- You will use your imagination to visualise how you want to look and feel in your future self.
- You will overcome any weight loss blocks or barriers in your subconscious.
- You will feel empowered, inspired and confident so that you can take control of your choices.
- A confidentiality agreement is always necessary when working therapeutically.
- The sessions are confidential - this is one of the main ways counselling and therapy differ from talking to a friend or relative (see ** below).
- If you are participating in a group sessions a confidentiality agreement will be discussed and agreed within the group on the first session.
- Once you are comfortable with the format of the sessions and the safe space it provides, you will find the freedom to speak openly, which can be very liberating and insightful.
- Corporate clients: confidentiality is critical to facilitate change - I will therefore only give anonymous feedback to the management team after seeking agreement from participants.
**Note: there are some situations where you may be a risk to yourself or others, and the law requires that I notify an authority; in these cases I may not be able to keep total confidentiality. However, breaking confidentiality is quite rare and in most situations when something is disclosed the person usually wants some action to be taken.
- I will ensure the session content is relevant to the age group in which I am working.
- For any therapy to have the best chance of being effective it is important that the child or young person is permitted to keep the content of their session private. I also understand you are trusting me to work with your child/teen, and are entitled to know what that involves, and to be updated on how the work is going. With this in mind, please note the following:
- Please allow your child/teen to decide whether and how much they wish to talk with you about their sessions.
- If your child/teen discloses something I believe indicates risk of serious harm to themselves or others then I will be in touch with you.
- I offer regular updates on how the sessions are going, I will always consult with your child/teen beforehand to ensure confidentiality and transparency.
- I will always regularly check in with your child/teen to see if they are finding the work we are doing together helpful. If they are not then we will bring our work to a close.
- These sessions includes psychological education and discussion. There will be the need to use other tools like a journal or other home tasks.
**Note: there are some situations where there is a risk to self or others, and the law requires that I notify an authority; in these cases I may not be able to keep total confidentiality. However, breaking confidentiality is quite rare and in most situations when something is disclosed the person usually wants some action to be taken.
- 1:1 sessions are 1 hour.
- Group Workshop - Overcome Anxiety & Stress, 4 weekly sessions - lasting one hour.
- Session times/dates will be negotiated at the time of consultation.
- I recommend that you do not rush off after group sessions.
- I offer discounted rates for multiple bookings for any size business.
- I will come to your workplace, as long as there is a safe, appropriate private environment.
- We can discuss using another venue if you do not have an appropriate room.
- Please contact me to ask for more information.
- We can negotiate a travel fee, at my hourly rate (£60), if you would prefer face to face sessions.
- I also offer online sessions to accommodate clients outside of the Plymouth area.
- Please contact me to ask for more information.
- A minimum of 4 and a maximum of 6 attendees
- BONUS - for groups of 6 the host is free
- Comfortable chairs or yoga mats for all participants - necessary for hypnosis
- Quiet undisturbed environment - switch off phones, speakers, doorbells
- Someone to take the dog/children out for a walk/play
- Confidentiality - no other person present other than participants
- I would also encourage groups to support each other outside of sessions via a group chat
As participation within the group sessions does not offer enough time to include bespoke counselling, I offer discounted rates for those who book 1:1 counselling if they have attended within a group.
1:1 sessions:
- I charge a fee for late cancellations.
- Depending on the situation we can reschedule appointments for sickness.
Groups:
- Depending on individual circumstances we can arrange a private session, for a small additional fee, or renegotiate a new time/date for the whole group.
- Any changes will depend on my availability.
- If you are attending group sessions, the agreement of the rest of the group will be required once payment and dates are confirmed.
Confidentiality and digital security are vital to a safe therapeutic space. I use secure,
password-protected systems and GDPR-compliant software to store your contact details and session records.
To maintain maximum professionalism, my practice is fully insured, registered with the ICO ( registration: ZB377976), and compliant with the latest UK legislation, including the Data Use and Access Act 2025.
You can view or download the complete (Privacy Policy & Data Processing Notice here) to read about your statutory data rights and my confidentiality boundaries before booking.
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