About us
If you’re struggling with anxiety, OCD, constant worry, panic, health anxiety, or challenges linked to ADHD and neurodiversity, you’re not alone. I’m Nova, a qualified CBT therapist offering online cognitive behavioural therapy for adults experiencing anxiety disorders, OCD, and related difficulties.
Alongside my professional training, I have personal experience of living with OCD and anxiety. I understand how exhausting it can be when your mind won’t give you a break, when you’re stuck in loops of fear, guilt, or “what if” thinking that won’t let up. This lived experience helps me bring empathy, honesty, and a grounded understanding to our work together.
Challenges like anxiety, OCD, and low self-esteem can often target what matters most and can show up in many different ways. You may feel stuck in intrusive thoughts, chronic worry, overthinking, checking, reassurance-seeking, perfectionism, or people-pleasing that may keep you feeling on edge. You may also experience panic, health anxiety, fear of judgment that leads to avoidance, low mood, chronic guilt, or feeling disconnected from yourself and others. It can feel as though you’re trapped in patterns that don’t make sense, wondering why they feel so real and why they won’t stop, no matter what you do. Therapy can offer a space to unpack these experiences, understand what is keeping them going, and build practical, lasting skills to help you move towards a life that feels more yours.
What I Help With:
• Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) – including harm OCD, HOCD/SO-OCD, sexual themes, relationship OCD (ROCD), Pure O, false memory OCD, real-event OCD, Meta OCD, contamination OCD, responsibility/checking OCD, magical thinking OCD, moral OCD and other subtypes.
• Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and chronic worry.
• Panic disorder, agoraphobia, panic attacks, physical/somatic anxiety.
• Health anxiety and fear of illness.
• Social anxiety and fear of judgement.
• Phobias and avoidance behaviours.
• Perfectionism and fear of making mistakes.
• Low self-esteem, chronic guilt, shame and confidence issues.
• Support for clients who are neurodivergent or exploring their neurodiversity, such as ADHD and autism.
I have experience working with neurodivergent clients and welcome all genders and backgrounds.
How I Work:
I’m a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and work in line with their ethical framework.
As a trained CBT therapist, I use a mix of evidence-based approaches tailored to your needs. These include:
- Cognitive and behavioural therapies – to understand and shift unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns.
- Exposure therapy – supporting you to gradually face fears and reduce avoidance.
- Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) – structured Online ERP therapy and OCD treatment, accessible from your own space. ERP is considered the gold standard therapy for OCD.
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) – to help change the way you relate to thoughts and feelings, and act in line with your values rather than fear.
- Behavioural therapy – targeting avoidant habits and reinforcing meaningful action.
- A focus on acceptance – learning to live alongside uncertainty, rather than constantly trying to eliminate it.
What to Expect:
Reaching out can feel daunting, especially if you think you’re the exception, carrying something too big to name. Therapy isn’t about having all the answers, but starting where you are. The aim is to help you become your own therapist to move toward a life that feels freer, more intentional, and yours.
I offer a free 15-minute consultation where you can ask questions and get a feel for how I work. You can book this via my website, using the link on this page.
Training, qualifications & experience
I’ve completed specialist training at postgraduate level in CBT, including evidence-based treatment for OCD using ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention), and treatment for Health Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety, Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Phobias and have also undertaken CPD in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). My approach draws on these therapies to help people gradually face fears, shift unhelpful thinking patterns, and focus on what matters, even when uncertainty is present.
Member organisations *
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Areas of counselling we deal with
Other areas of counselling we deal with
Agoraphobia
Therapies offered
Fees
£85.00 per session
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