Nicky Daly

PROFILE.

On our own, we can go round and round in circles, trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel, or the magic wand that will suddenly make everything feel better. What we really need, when this happens, is to talk with someone who can help us to ground ourselves again, help us to think things through, make plans, learn techniques and tools to help us cope, and help us to join things up and make some sense of why we're feeling this way.

struggling with difficult feelings such as fear, depression, anxiety, panic, stress, grief, anger? Do you feel like you are going around in circles and can't see a light at the end of the tunnel?

Struggling on our own it can be difficult to see a way forward and hard to believe that anyone else might understand or be able to help.

Taking that step to ask for help can be a frightening one, but it can also be the beginning of stepping out of that circle and finding a different perspective.

The fact that you are reading this says something. That maybe:

1. You recognise something is wrong and are looking for a solution.
2. You don't feel great, but are unsure what the problem is and would like some help to work out what's wrong and move forward.
3. You feel stuck and would like something to change and are looking for help to make it different

Maybe you've tried medication, but feel it hasn't help as much as you'd hoped and would like to try something else instead?

Maybe you suffer from over thinking and feel anxious a low a lot of the time, leaving you feeling overwhelmed and hopeless?

Maybe you are struggling to get past some difficult experience in the past, which feels hard to forget and forgive?

Maybe you have difficulties getting on with people, making life feel hard and you feeling unable to be who you want to be?

Maybe life feels joyless and without much purpose or good things to look forward to?

Maybe you would like help to find some stillness, calm and steadiness in what feels like a frantic world?

Maybe you feel trapped in a difficult relationship and want some help?

Maybe you are struggling to deal with the loss of a loved one?

What Can I offer you.

Help identifying ways forward: Sometimes we can't see beyond our own perception of what is possible until someone else helps us step outside and see things afresh.

Help to take that all important step forward with support.

Help you make sense of and unravel the difficulties you're struggling with.

Who am I?

My name is Nicky Daly and I work in a joint counselling/psychotherapy practice with a fellow psycotherapist. I offer confidential, individual counselling/therapy, both short and long term, from my private practise in Shepshed, just 3 minutes drive from J23 of the M1. As a practise we offer short and long term therapy for individuals, couples, children and young people.

I have been a counsellor and psychotherapist for 15 years. My approach draws from an integrated mix of psychodynamic, humanistic and Cognitive Behavioural and Mindfulness based Stress Reduction. However, my core model is Psychodynamic.

What does that mean? Simply that we are the sum total of all we have known, and that making sense of why we feel the way we do is every bit as important as learning techniques to manage it. If you like, I believe that it's better to heal the wound than to put a sticking plaster over it, and that it's this that makes the difference to the outcome, and whether change is lasting or not.

Over the years, I have become increasingly interested in, and persuaded by, the mind-body-spirit connection, and my way of working has become increasingly holistic.

I have also become interested in the importance of spirituality (with a small 's') in wellbeing, and the creativity and greater sense of connection it can give us.

I work with individuals and have interest and experience supporting people with the following difficulties -

My areas of experience and interest include:-
Depression/low mood
Anxiety
Stress/burnout/Work Life Balance
Stress at work
Insomnia
Struggling to find peace calm and inner stillness
Feeling stuck and wishing there was more to life
Trauma
Relationship difficulties/Affairs
Abusive relationships
Difficulties relating to other people
Family issues
Divorce/Separation
Managing change
Grief and Loss.
Low self esteem
Confidence building
Abuse
Problems dating back to childhood and adolescence
Spiritual development and crisis.
Chronic Fatigue/ME
Carer issues

Please contact me for a chat and to make an initial appointment.

I adhere to the BACP's ethical code.

I trained with the Alef Trust as a Transpersonal Coaching Psychologist and have a keen interest in consciousness and Non Duality studies and work with transpersonal issues, including:

Spiritual awakening experience and breakdown related to spiritual experiences. 

Near death experiences 

High sensitivity around people and places.

Unusual experiences, such as telepathy. 

Unusual, un explained experiences around death and loss. 

 Please message me if you wish to discuss an experience you would like help with. 

Individual counselling/therapy - £55 per 50 minute session
Initial sessions last for 1 hour and are charged at £55

As I am unable to answer my phone when working, please leave a brief message, with your name and telephone number, on the confidential answering machine and I will get back to you the same day, or within 24 hours.