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 tailor my approach to each individual client depending on what is required and what best suits them. This could incorporate face to face or online therapy.

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 integrative approach incorporates humanistic values of respect, honesty and empathy; psychodynamic tools to explore how the past presents itself in the present as well as identifying and clearing deep seated, painful sub-conscious patterns through Block Clearance Therapy.  My trauma informed counselling style aims at achieving deeper understanding, self-compassion and control over one's internal  world as well as improved confidence and self-acceptance to enable you to make the choices and decisions that best honour your potential.  I encourage my clients of all ages to work collaboratively with me, in a safe and supportive environment, to enable them to connect to their inner power, joy and purpose and get closer to their dreams every day. 

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  (BCT) – a unique approach which helps identify, understand and release deep-seated sub-conscious patterns in our behaviours, feelings and experiences.  I work continuously on enhancing my knowledge of human nature and relationships though regular attendance of CPD courses.

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.