About me
You may feel stuck in patterns that keep repeating in your relationships, even when you’re trying your best to change them.
This can show up as overthinking, people-pleasing, emotional overwhelm, conflict, or shutting down and pulling away. Relationships may begin to feel exhausting, confusing, or painfully distant, leaving you wondering why the same difficulties keep happening despite your efforts to change them.
Many of the people I work with are insightful and self-aware. They often understand their patterns intellectually, but still feel emotionally stuck.
Often, these difficulties have deeper roots shaped by earlier experiences where emotional needs were not fully seen, understood, or safely held. Over time, this can affect self-worth, emotional regulation, intimacy, and the ability to feel secure and connected in relationships.
These patterns can also impact intimacy and sexual connection, leading to difficulties such as loss of desire, differences in libido, anxiety around performance, or sex beginning to feel pressured, disconnected, or emotionally difficult.
How I Can Help
I work with individuals and couples to understand and change the emotional and relational patterns that keep them stuck.
Together, we explore how these patterns developed, what continues to drive them, and how to create deeper, lasting change rather than simply managing symptoms. Therapy can help you feel more emotionally secure, connected, and able to respond differently within your relationships and daily life.
You may be struggling with:
Repeating relationship patterns
People-pleasing, resentment, or difficulty expressing needs
Emotional overwhelm or disconnection
High conflict or communication difficulties
Difficulties with trust, vulnerability, or closeness
Anxiety, overthinking, or emotional reactivity
Intimacy, desire, or sexual connection difficulties
The impact of past experiences on current relationships
My Approach
My work is grounded in EMDR, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Schema Therapy, allowing us to work at both a relational and deeper emotional level.
I integrate attachment-focused and body-aware approaches to help clients understand emotional patterns, process difficult experiences, and develop more secure and fulfilling ways of relating to themselves and others.
Therapy Options
Sessions are available:
In person from my private practice in Cubley, Derbyshire (DE6 2EY)
Online across the UK and Europe
I primarily offer mid to longer-term therapy, allowing time to work at depth and address the roots of difficulties. Sessions are most commonly held weekly, as consistency often supports emotional safety, momentum, and meaningful progress.
An Inclusive, Thoughtful Practice
I offer a warm, affirming, and reflective space where clients can explore their experiences openly and without judgement.
My practice is neurodivergent- and LGBTQ+ affirming, and grounded in openness, authenticity, and respect for the uniqueness of each individual and relationship.
Fees
Individuals & Couples: £110 per 50-minute session
If you are considering therapy and would like to explore whether working together feels right, you are warmly welcome to get in touch to arrange an introductory conversation.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training, Qualifications & Experience
I began working in the mental health field in 2019 and later founded Live Life Happy Therapy to support individuals and couples experiencing emotional overwhelm, relationship difficulties, and long-standing patterns often rooted in earlier relational experiences.
My work has a strong focus on attachment and relational trauma, particularly where clients feel stuck in recurring emotional or relationship patterns they struggle to shift alone.
I integrate EMDR, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Schema Therapy, and body-aware approaches within a relational framework, supporting clients to reconnect with themselves and develop more secure and fulfilling relationships.
Alongside my therapy work, I continue ongoing professional development in trauma, attachment, intimacy, and relationship therapy. I am currently undertaking a Level 7 Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy, working towards COSRT accreditation, further deepening my work with intimacy, desire, and emotional connection within relationships.
Outside of the therapy room, I enjoy horse riding and spending time with my family, both of which help keep me grounded in the realities of everyday life.
Qualifications & Professional Training
Advanced Diploma in Relationship Psychotherapy Level 7
Advanced Patterns in Psychotherapy Level 7
Integrative Counselling Level 5
EMDR Therapy (EMDRIA & EMDR Europe Approved Training)
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT Externship)
Schema Therapy (ISST Approved)
Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 1 & 2
Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapy
Young Person & Adolescent Counselling Level 5
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Psychosexual Therapy Diploma Level 7 (ongoing)
Continued Professional Development Includes
Attachment-Focused EMDR
Trauma & Relational Trauma Treatment
Somatic Approaches to Trauma
Rupture & Repair in Relationships
Healing Shame & Self-Loathing
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Neurobiology of Trauma
EMDR Couples Therapy
Healing Trust & Relationship Trauma
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£110.00 per session
Additional information
Fees working with Nicola
Individuals & Couples Therapy £110 per 50-minute session
For your convenience, you can reach out directly via email or phone. Alternatively, visit my website to book using my online scheduling link.
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