Intuitive, Integrated Counselling
Intuitive, Integrative Counselling is fabulous tool kit for emotional regulation and self-awareness. It draws on a range of therapeutic approaches that can be intertwined. Each person is unique, and your counselling is shaped around your individual needs, pace, and goals.
“You are welcome just as you are. A space to contemplate unclear places, to root into your own warmth and strength, to rise from a steadier, truer ground.”
Therapeutic Approaches
Deep Intuitive Listening
At the heart of all my work is deep intuitive listening. This is a compassionate way of being present for you that goes beyond simply hearing words. It is an art of understanding beneath the surface, gently tuning into tone, emotion, body language, and the quieter spaces in between. You are met where you are.
Emotional Freedom Technique (E.F.T.)
The Emotional Freedom Technique (E.F.T.) often called “tapping” can be taught as a tool to help reduce emotional intensity, stress response and body tension. The method combines gentle tapping on specific acupressure points with focused attention on a thought, feeling, memory, or physical sensation, fostering calm and a sense of emotional regulation.
This gentle calming tool may help release the grip of:
overwhelm, low self-worth, unhelpful behaviours, habits or thought processes, emotional stuck points, anxiety, unhelpful memories, fear, chronic pain, tension headaches, muscle tightness, stress-related physical discomfort, and fatigue or overwhelm connected with pain.
Parts Therapy
Sometimes we can feel stuck in habitual behaviours or fears. Parts Therapy explores differing aspects (parts) of our mental psyche which may have taken on individual roles to protect us, manage, please, avoid, or stay in control. By getting to know these parts, the roles they play with curiosity rather than judgement, greater self-awareness and compassionate understanding and clarity can emerge.
An example of inner conflict: One part of you may long for self-approval, while another part has an old belief that self-approval /confidence, means vanity. This humble value may be the part holding you back. The aim of Parts Therapy is not to get rid of any part of you, but to understand what it may be trying to protect or hold. With compassionate, insight these parts begin to feel connected, bringing clarity, self-acceptance, and emotional balance.
What it may help support:
chronic pain/fatigue, inner conflict, guilt & shame, self-criticism, self-abandonment, people-pleasing, overwhelm, anxiety, patterns/habits, attachment styles
E.F.T and Parts Therapy can complement one another beautifully.
Parts Therapy helps bring awareness to the different inner parts of you that may feel conflicted, while EFT offers a gentle way to soothe the emotional and physical intensity those parts may carry. Together, they can support both deeper self-understanding and greater nervous-system regulation.
Inner-Child Work
Inner Child Therapy is a gentle and compassionate approach that helps you connect with the younger parts of yourself that may still carry old hurts, unmet needs, or emotional patterns formed in childhood.
This kind of therapy may include gently noticing emotional reactivity that feel younger, or stronger than expected, exploring early experiences and the beliefs shaped around them, and offering compassion and using visualisation and Felt Sense methods to build the inner relationship to help strengthen your adult capacity to building greater safety, self-trust, and self-worth over time.
Inner Child Therapy can be helpful for: low self-worth, people-pleasing, fear of rejection or abandonment, self-criticism, emotional triggers, difficulty with boundaries, safety or trust, and patterns rooted in unmet childhood needs.
The Felt-Sense (Somatic Focusing)
Felt-Sense work, sometimes known as somatic focusing, is a gentle body-aware approach that helps you tune into the subtle physical sensations connected to your inner experience. This may show up as tightness, heaviness, fluttering, pressure, or a sense that something feels “stuck” but hard to put into words. Rather than analysing straight away, this approach invites you to pause, breathe, and listen inwardly with calm, curiosity, and care. As attention softens around what the body is holding, greater clarity, understanding, and a deeper sense of connection can begin to emerge.
What it may help with anxiety, stress or overwhelm that feels held in the body, feeling stuck in patterns of behaviour or unhelpful thoughts, emotional triggers or responses that are hard to explain in words, physical sensations such as tightness, heaviness, pressure or unease, and building self-awareness, emotional clarity, and a deeper connection with yourself.
Heal-Your-Life Self Compassion
You Can Heal-Your-Life(Y.C.H.Y.L) tools are from the motivational work of Louise L. Hay, whose pioneering teachings continue to support personal growth. These self-compassion methods are centred on the connection between patterns of thought, beliefs, emotions, and wellbeing. At its heart is the understanding that healing often begins with greater self-awareness, self-kindness, and a willingness to gently transform old patterns into more loving, supportive ways of being. The work’ takes practise on the part of the client, and offers a nurturing space for reflection using visualisations, guided meditations, affirmation, mirrorwork and inspires willingness to create positive change. The tools can be super inspiring when offered in a group setting or coaching session. Though I can use them to enhance many of my therapy sessions.
Mindfulness
Being in the moment gives focus to a whole-body somatic experience of life. It allows us to feel more relaxed and empowered as we realise the future and past are fragments of imagination and all we truly have is now to make a difference. Mindful meditations can add calm and focus to support creativity, better sleep patterns and improved relationships. Benefits are many such as less stress connecting to our inner peace and joy.
Additional Support
Compassionate Group Work
Nikki facilitates welcoming workshops in Self-Development and Mindfulness for transforming mindsets and supported change. Nikki believes we can all learn, heal and help validate each other, ‘There is a unique power in a supportive community that encourages a compassionate undercurrent of accountability to nurture, heal and grow’.
Energy Block Release 1 (EBR) sequencing from Dru Yoga Course.
Energy Block Release 1 (EBR1) in Dru Yoga is a super mind/ body maintenance sequence that can be performed chair-based or standing. It includes a fabulous, fun, gentle, flowing sequence to maintain mind-body and emotional balance.
Benefits include:
Improved mobility, release of mind body tensions and stiffness. It encourages energy to flow more freely through the body transforming emotional stuck points in the body’s energy field. Benefits include greater vitality, immunity, mental and emotional resilience, joy and ease of pain. It helps regulate the nervous system, free up myofascial connective tissue and holding patterns. This sequence and an accompanied Dru Heart Flow (E.B.R 3)wellbeing sequence are trauma informed and a super addition to any therapy
Overview of Techniques and Tools
- Intuitive Deep Listening Skills
- Emotional Freedom Technique(E.F.T)
- Parts Therapy
- Inner-Child work
- The Felt-Sense
- Mindfulness Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (MCBT)
- Psychoeducation
- Energy Block Release (EBR) Dru Yoga.
- Heal-Your-Life Self Compassion workshops
Additional Support
Areas of experience include childhood developmental trauma, relationship issues, attachment styles, anxiety, low self-worth, chronic pain/fatigue, over-thinking, self-sabotage, people-pleasing, life changes, bereavement, confidence and assertiveness, self-compassion, and focusing.