Nikki Ellen
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About me
Available for new clients.
Are you feeling anxious or stressed? Do you feel like you are often on edge, struggling to enjoy your life as much as you would like to or never really in the present moment? Do the significant people in your life complain that you don't show your feelings or frequently become easily irritated or angry?
Hi, I'm Nikki, an accredited, experienced Integrative Counsellor, EMDR Therapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist, with extensive experience of working with anxiety and stress, particularly when it is a symptom of trauma.
It is estimated that 1 in 3 adults have experienced a traumatic event and that 1 in 10 people in the UK will experience PTSD, which is often characterised by feelings of depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, guilt, shame, emotional dysregulation and an inability to enjoy present circumstances.
Counselling can provide you with a confidential, safe, neutral space in which to discuss your thoughts, feelings, worries and behaviour with an experienced professional. Through counselling, you are likely to feel like a weight has lifted and that you can separate out the different issues in your life that might be causing you to feel anxious, stressed, sad or confused.
Integrative counselling can provide you with strategies and interventions that can help you make lasting changing so that you feel calmer, happier and more contented in your life.
If you need to process trauma, EMDR, a NICE approved psychotherapy tool, can help you to process traumatic memories. This can either eliminate triggers or greatly reduce them so that you can get on with your life, feel calmer, happier and enjoy the present moment more.
For others, your stress or anxiety may stem from your working conditions. I am an ex-teacher, with the lived experience of how stressful (and joyful) the education system can be. Previous clients, working in education, have commented on how helpful this experience is.
Alternatively, you might need to explore if your stress and anxiety is a consequence of being neurodivergent, in a neurotypical world. I have extensive experience of working with clients who are exploring if they might have ADHD, an Autistic Spectrum Condition or dyslexia. If appropriate, I can bring my lived experience of the dyspraxia assessment process to my work.
I know from personal experience how hard it can be to take the first step to find the right counsellor. Please rest assured that I will do everything possible to put you at ease and to help you feel comfortable. I offer a free, twenty minute phone consultation so that you can ask me any questions that you might have and hear a little more about how I work.
Alternatively, I can answer any questions by email.
I have extensive experience in working with:
- ADHD at the pre-assessment stage.
- Anxiety, particularly when a symptom of trauma.
- Autistic Spectrum Conditions at the pre-assessment stage.
- Bullying in childhood and at work.
- Educational issues including exam stress, overwhelm, procrastination and the impact of dyslexia.
- Life transitions, particularly starting and finishing university.
- Low mood.
- Phobias.
- Processing and working towards the acceptance of life changing health conditions.
- Relationship difficulties, particularly infidelity and accepting a relationship ending.
- Young people in their twenties, particularly but not exclusively graduates, who are dealing with the uncertainty of precarious employment, finding a first (graduate) job, managing housing worries, being in a long distance relationship or peer group pressure.
I am skilled at putting people at ease through my warm, down to earth nature. If you would like to find out how counselling could help you move beyond feeling anxious, angry, unhappy or stuck, please call me for a free, no obligation, twenty minute consultation or send me an email.
How can counselling help you?
Counselling can help you by giving you somewhere confidential and non-judgemental to talk through how you feel. Often the act of talking to someone trained, who listens fully to what you are saying, who is neutral in your life can help to ease your distress or turmoil.
Many people are surprised at how effective counselling sessions are for enabling a person to leave behind troubling memories, through talking about them in a safe, secure setting. Previous clients have also commented on the power of feeling understood and validated, particularly when these might be some of the things that aren't present in a client's daily interactions with family or friends.
I am also able to suggest well being interventions and strategies, to support your progress. Again, previous clients have commented on how useful it has been to be provided with "tried and tested" strategies that can help soothe difficult emotions and improve well being.
If appropriate, I am also able to provide you with EMDR or hypnotherapy, if it is clear that these therapies would be more suitable than counselling.
What to expect in your first session.
In your first session, I will do everything possible to help you feel at ease and welcome. Your first session will take the form of an Initial Assessment session. This might feel like an easier way to begin your sessions because it involves me asking you a number of questions, in order to gather information which will provide us with a framework for how to work effectively together. Your subsequent sessions will provide you with the space to talk, to be fully heard and validated as well as offering you well being strategies, which can help reduce anxiety, low mood, worry and stress. You will be offered regular session reviews to make sure that you are happy with the progress that you are making and only coming for sessions when it is necessary for you to do so.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Professional Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy.
- EMDR Europe Accredited Training.
- Diploma in Professional Hypnotherapy.
- NLP Practitioner.
- CRUSE Bereavement Support Foundation Course.
- CRUSE Bereavement Care Face to Face Elective.
- PGCE English and Communications.
- B.A. (Hons) English, Communications and Counselling.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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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.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I have worked with clients to support their loss about being childless through circumstance. I have also worked with clients to accept the diagnosis of an autoimmune condition and I am able to work with clients who have specific food cravings that get in the way of them eating healthily.
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
All one hour sessions for counselling, hypnotherapy or EMDR cost £65 an hour.
Lower cost sessions are available at £45 an hour for counselling and £52 an hour for EMDR or hypnotherapy.
When I work
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I am based in Heeley, Sheffield on Mondays, Tuesdays, part of Thursday and Friday. I am based at Breathe, S10 on Wednesday and Thursday evening. Sessions are available in person and online.
Further information
I also run courses on Managing Stress Effectively, Managing your Mind and Relaxation for Busy People. I have facilitated two online relaxation groups for nurses, during the pandemic. I also provide 1:1 assertiveness training.
