Nicola Dooley

I work Tuesday to Thursday. The latest evening appointment I offer is 6.15pm.

I am an experienced Integrative Psychotherapist and Counsellor. I work with a wide range of people who come with a variety of concerns or difficulties. I support them to understand more about what it is they are experiencing and enable them to create change in their lives. I have a particular specialism in working with those who have experienced trauma which maybe a recent event or early childhood trauma.

Central to how I work is understanding and working from your unique perspective and values in order to support you to find a way forward that fits for you. This includes appreciating and working with each of our similarities and differences around identity and life experiences, visible or invisible, and the different opportunities or difficulties that may have created.

The way I work is in an exploratory and collaborative way. I use different elements of my integrative approach to suit your style and personality and what you are grappling with. This may mean talking about your experiences and how you see the world. However sometimes things don't have words or are not in conscious awareness in which case it can be useful to use other ways to help express and make sense of them like imagery, drawing, or noticing and using body awareness.