Nicoletta Babbs

I generally work Monday to Friday 9am – 9pm, and offer both daytime and evening appointments. Flexible hours and/or Saturday appointments are available upon request, subject to availability.

I work in a number of different ways depending on what is required and what best suits you. This could incorporate long-term sessions, long-term face to face, online therapy or short-term sessions.

Clients can see me for either short term counselling (1-6 sessions to focus perhaps on a specific topic) or for longer, which allows us to explore more feelings and aspects of life, according to individual needs.

I am a warm, sensitive, supportive counsellor with more than 18 years' experience of individual counselling for adults of all ages. I work within easy reach of Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud and Cirencester. I recognise each of my clients as a unique person and work with their individual feelings and needs.

I offer individual counselling and a caring, compassionate and constructive working relationship where you can feel heard, understood and safe to express feelings and explore problems from different perspectives. 

I believe that emotional pain is often rooted in relationship issues or major life changing events but it is only through a positive relationship experience that emotional wounds can be healed. I specialise in helping people struggling with anxiety, grief, trauma and loss. 

My approach aims to help you achieve deeper understanding, improved confidence and self-acceptance to help you make the best choices and decisions.  I enable individuals of all ages empower themselves by connecting to and releasing their suppressed feelings which may be blocking the way to achieving their dreams. I use an integrated approach working with conscious and sub-conscious feelings and beliefs to help you connect to your goals.

I hold a Post Graduate Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Counselling from the Bath Centre of Counselling and Psychotherapy. I also hold a Diploma in Block Clearance Therapy – a unique approach which helps identify deep-seated sub-conscious patterns in our behaviours, feelings and experiences and facilitates our understanding of how these patterns were formed.  We are then able re-pattern our sub-conscious with affirmations to release previously hidden resources and abilities.

I have particular experience in working with people facing a lot of change and going through major transitions in life such as divorce, redundancy, retirement, major illness, post-natal depression, going into work, starting new school or university, starting a family, challenges in accepting cultural differences, expression and communication difficulties.

I have supported clients with relationship hardships involving grief, anger, stress and depression, work-related issues such as burn out and bullying, as well as physical, emotional and sexual abuse and the challenges faced by anyone who cares for a family member or a friend who is physically or psychologically in need of support.

I also have specific training and experience in working with young adults (17+), teenagers and  older children.

The first session will allow us to get to know each other: for you to get a sense of who I am and how I work, and for me to discern if I am the right counsellor for you, with no obligation to continue seeing me.  This session lasts up to 90 minutes.

If we both felt we could work together,  we would meet weekly at a mutually convenient time. These sessions are 60 minutes long. Block Clearance Therapy sessions (optional) last from 90-120 minutes and take place every 4-6 weeks.