About me
Hi, I’m Nina 👋
I offer remote therapy to clients in the UK and English-speaking clients around the world, through video, audio, SMS and email.
I also work with parents and educators who want a bit more understanding and support around neurodivergent children and young people - whether that’s ADHD, autism, PDA, giftedness, or simply a child who doesn’t seem to fit neatly into the boxes around them.
I’m curious by nature, and I tend to ask a lot of questions. I’m interested in what makes people tick, what sits underneath the things we do, and what happens when we stop trying to squeeze ourselves (or our children) into someone else’s idea of how we should be.
I have training and extensive experience in working with neurodivergence, whether diagnosed, suspected or simply being explored. This includes ADHD, autism and giftedness, alongside lots of the other complicated, messy and very human parts of life, including:
🌍 Mixed-culture, expat and immigrant life
🏳️🌈 Gender, sexuality and relationships
💔 Grief, bereavement and loss
👯 Twin relationships
🫂 Family estrangement
💼 Leadership, authenticity and finding ways to make your work or business fit you rather than the other way around
I also bring plenty of lived experience to my work. I’m neurodivergent myself - late diagnosed combined ADHD and giftedness - and I come from a mixed-culture, neurodivergent family, with lived experience of autism, demand avoidance/PDA and ARFID. I’m very open-minded about identity, sexuality, relationships and all the wonderfully complicated ways people can be themselves.
I’m a big believer in creating a space where you don’t have to perform, explain yourself endlessly, or worry about being judged. You get to turn up as you are. I’ll be curious, compassionate, honest and alongside you as we work things through.
And yes, I’m absolutely LGBTQIA+ affirming. 🌈
Want to chat?
The quickest way to get hold of me to book a free introductory session - or your first therapy session - is to email me at nina@ninekeys.co.uk or send me an SMS/WhatsApp message on +46 764 311 318.
I also share free resources, ideas and the occasional ramble over on my YouTube channel, The Rambling Counsellor, where I talk about neurodivergent life, parenting, education, families and all the things that come with being a slightly complicated human in a world that often prefers things simple.
You can find me here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRamblingCounsellor
Training, qualifications & experience
I’ve been working in mental health and wellbeing for around 30 years, and have been in private practice since 2010. These days I work online with UK-based clients and English-speaking clients around the world, from my home base in Stockholm.
I have a BSc in Psychology from the University of Manchester and I’m an accredited Gestalt Counsellor, trained at the Gestalt Centre in London. Along the way, I’ve built up particular experience in neurodivergence - including ADHD, autism and giftedness - as well as bereavement, anger, racial and cultural identity, women’s mental health, sexuality, gender identity and different ways of doing relationships.
However qualifications and training are only part of what I bring. I also draw on my own lived experience, curiosity and a genuine interest in people and the many different ways we can experience the world.
I offer counselling via video, telephone, email and live messaging. Depending on what works for you, I might also bring in more creative approaches - mindfulness, visualisation, movement, writing, or simply finding a different way of looking at something that’s been stuck.
A lot of my work comes back to belonging and authenticity: what happens when you’ve spent a lot of time feeling different, disconnected, misunderstood, or like you’re somehow getting life 'wrong'? I’m interested in helping people work out who they actually are, what matters to them, and what a life that feels genuinely theirs might look like.
I also work with parents who are struggling with each other or family life, or trying to understand and support their young people - particularly when they’re neurodivergent or questioning their identity.
Finally, I work with business leaders who are ready to make a shift, whether that’s in how they lead, how they work, or how they want their professional life to fit with the person they actually are.
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.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I also work with other issues including:
- Questioning or loss of faith or belief, exploring spirituality
- Exploring beliefs around death and bereavement
- Difficulties around the twin relationship
- Giftedness
- Leadership or supporting business owners in shifting things in their personal or professional lives
- Supervision - supporting therapists in their own work, and their personal and professional growth
Therapies offered
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Fees
£80.00 - £120.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I charge £80 for a 50-minute session, and £120 for a longer 90-minute session.
I offer shorter half-hour sessions if appropriate with young people (£45), and concessionary rate of £65 for weekly 50-minute sessions booked a month in advance.
For up-to-date information on my fees, please go to:
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Further information
It is important to me that my clients feel safe, and are not distracted from the therapeutic work by anything in their environment. You are welcome to communicate in whatever way works best for you - including writing or via SMS, using whatever words feel right in the moment, and if there is anything you need me to change in my environment - noises, lighting etc - please let me know.
For more information about me or what I offer, please visit my website at https://ninekeys.co.uk or any of my social media sites listed in this profile.
Special request: if you are an advertiser, please do not contact me. I am not interested in any advertising or promotion offers.
