Nicole Collins

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About me

Anxiety, Emotional Overwhelm & Nervous System Healing | Trauma-Informed Integrative Therapy

Congratulations on taking the brave, first step in your healing journey. Whatever has brought you here, whether you're feeling overwhelmed, anxious, exhausted, disconnected, stuck or simply aware that something doesn't feel quite right, you are welcome here.

My approach is gentle, compassionate and trauma-informed. I believe healing is about more than talking through problems. It's about understanding how your experiences have shaped your mind, body and nervous system, and gently creating enough safety for lasting change to become possible.

Many of the people I work with have spent years pushing through, holding everything together for everyone else.

Pushing through.

Overthinking.

People-pleasing.

Living in survival mode for so long that they've forgotten what it feels like to truly rest.

Before exploring deeper emotions, patterns or past experiences, we focus on helping you understand your nervous system, reconnect with your body and develop tools that help you feel more grounded, present and supported in everyday life.

I work collaboratively with you, recognising that you are the expert on your own experience. My role is not to tell you what to do, but to walk alongside you with curiosity, compassion and understanding as you reconnect with yourself.

Your pace.

Your needs.

Your experiences.

Always at the heart of our work together.

My hope is to help you deepen your understanding of yourself, build nervous system flexibility and create a greater sense of safety, connection and trust within your own body.

At the heart of my work is the belief that healing happens through compassionate awareness, meaningful connection and the gradual experience of feeling safe enough to be yourself.

You might recognise yourself here...

  • Constantly overwhelmed, anxious or unable to switch off.
  • Exhausted from carrying too much for too long.
  • Stuck in cycles of overthinking, worry, people-pleasing or self-doubt.
  • Burnt out, emotionally drained or disconnected from yourself.
  • Numb, shut down or struggling to find motivation.
  • Like you're always in survival mode and never truly able to relax.
  • Ready to understand yourself with greater compassion rather than judgement.

    Together we'll gently begin creating enough safety for you to reconnect with yourself, your body and the parts of you that have had to work so hard for so long.

This work isn't about fixing you.

It is about understanding yourself with greater compassion.

Creating safety within your nervous system.

And gently making space for lasting change.

Areas I Support With

  • Anxiety and chronic stress
  • Burnout and exhaustion
  • Nervous system regulation
  • Functional freeze and shutdown
  • Emotional overwhelm
  • Self-worth and self-criticism
  • Boundaries and people-pleasing
  • Identity and life transitions
  • Trauma-informed healing
  • Reconnection to self
  • Emotional awareness and regulation
  • Building resilience and capacity

I believe that every response your nervous system has developed has served a purpose at some point in your life.

Many of the patterns that now feel frustrating or exhausting were once ways of coping, adapting and surviving. Together we can begin to understand those patterns with curiosity rather than judgement.

My commitment is to offer a safe, compassionate space where you can explore your experiences at your own pace, gently reconnect with yourself and build trust in your own inner wisdom.

I believe healing happens through connection. Through being seen. Through being understood. Through learning that you no longer have to navigate everything alone.

Whatever your reason for seeking counselling, I would be honoured to walk alongside you as you reconnect with yourself, strengthen your sense of safety and discover what it means to move from surviving towards living more fully and authentically.

Training, qualifications & experience

  • Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
  • Level 3 in Counselling Studies
  • Level 2 in Counselling Skills
  • Level 2 Breathwork Coach 
  • Somatic Trauma Therapy with Babette Rothschild 
  • Emotional Freedom Training (EFT) Practitioner (Currently in training)
  • Reiki Master
  • Meditation Teacher Diploma 

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Areas of counselling I deal with

Other areas of counselling I deal with

As a Reiki Master, I am able to offer you online, distance or face to face reiki healing services. Our face to face sessions would have to be seated as my room isn't able to fit a table in. However, this won't affect the treatment you will recieve - Reiki always knows where it needs to go. If you would like to know more about how Reiki can support you in your life please feel free to email me.

I am a qualified Breathwork Coach and am on my journey to become an EFT Practitioner. In which I will be able to offer as separate sessions or as part of your therapeutic journey.

As a highly sensitive person myself, I have a special interest in energy healing and working on a somatic level to help empower you, to reconnect to your authenticity and remove blockages that may be in your way.

Therapies offered

Fees

£65.00 per session

Additional information

The discovery call is free and usually lasts around 20 minutes.

The initial assessment session will last 50 minutes and will be £65, each subsequent session thereafter will cost £65 and last for 50 minutes. Sessions are available on a fortnightly basis.

When I work

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Early morning
Morning
Early afternoon
Late afternoon
Evening

Further information

If you are curious about how we might work together or would like to know more information, please get in touch by email here to arrange a free phone consultation. This gives you the opportunity to ask any questions and give you a feel for how I work, find out if you feel I am a good fit for you before you decide on booking a session.

West Malling, Kent, ME19

Type of session

In person
Online

Types of client

Young adults (18-24)
Adults (25-64)
Older Adults (65+)

Key details

My therapy room is located on the first floor.

Online platforms

Zoom
Nicole Collins
Nicole Collins