Nick Shepley , BACP

Nick Shepley is a UK-based addictions therapist who brings seven years of clinical experience to supporting people through stress, low mood, anxiety, self-esteem difficulties and relationship challenges. He specialises in helping clients explore how past experiences, including childhood events, continue to shape current feelings and behaviours, and he works alongside those navigating addiction, recovery and wider life transitions.

Nick adopts a collaborative, person-centred stance that treats each client as the expert on their own life. He blends humanistic perspectives with cognitive approaches and motivational interviewing to identify practical steps and internal strengths that support change. Sessions focus on understanding thoughts, emotions and patterns of behaviour while building skills to manage triggers, improve relationships and increase emotional resilience.

As a practitioner who holds the BACP credential - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - Nick emphasises a nonjudgmental atmosphere where clients can explore difficult topics such as trauma, grief, eating and intimacy-related issues. He also works with concerns like parenting, career stress, compassion fatigue and attachment-related difficulties.

Nick aims to help people discover workable solutions and greater self-understanding, supporting them to take meaningful steps toward the life changes they want to make.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Nick uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice and reframe unhelpful thought patterns and develop practical coping strategies for anxiety, low mood and stress. Motivational Interviewing is used to strengthen motivation for change, especially with addiction-related goals, by exploring ambivalence and building a client’s own reasons for change. Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from their problems by examining the stories they tell about their lives and opening up new ways to understand identity and relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Nick collaborates with each person to tailor methods to their needs, goals and preferences, adjusting techniques over time so therapy remains relevant and client-led.

Online therapy options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to access support from different locations. These formats offer flexibility in scheduling and allow therapists and clients to focus directly on the therapeutic work, whether the priority is real-time conversation or written reflection.