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Nicole is a Social Worker and Systemic Practitioner with 9 years’ experience across CAMHS and local authority services. She is passionate about supporting parents and carers who feel stuck or disheartened, helping them to reconnect with their hopes for family life and take steps towards meaningful change.
Nicole is a qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England, with over 9 years’ experience working across adult and children’s services.
Her background includes local authority work, early help and family support teams, and CAMHS, where she worked as a practitioner following her IAPT training in parent-focused approaches, including the Incredible Years programme.
Nicole is particularly passionate about supporting parents and carers. She works alongside families to better understand what’s been happening within relationships—especially during times of stress or escalation—and how each person’s thoughts, feelings and responses can influence one another.
She brings a compassionate and non-judgemental approach, recognising that parenting can feel challenging and that difficult feelings are a natural part of family life. Creating a space where these experiences can be explored openly and safely is central to her work.
Nicole supports families to reconnect with their strengths, think about what they would like to be different, and take steps towards meaningful change. When things feel unclear, she works collaboratively to help families find a sense of direction together.
Her work draws on a range of approaches, including systemic and family psychotherapy, Non-Violent Resistance (NVR), where she is an advanced practitioner and clinical supervisor, as well as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT). She is also trained in delivering parenting programmes such as Incredible Years (ages 2–8) and Strengthening Families (10–14).
Nicole is known for being warm, approachable and thoughtful, while also able to offer gentle challenge in a safe and containing way. She has experience supporting families and professional networks to have open and meaningful conversations, ensuring that different perspectives can be heard and understood.
Nicole has a particular quote by Nelson Mandela that she feels is an important message to hold onto within her practice:
“It always seems impossible until it’s done”