Welcome to Pensieve

In-Person and Online Counselling Life Coaching

A space to untangle your mind and find clarity

Available online |in-person from Milborne St Andrew, serving Blandford, Dorchester and Central Dorset.

Hi, I’m Nicky

My counselling practice is inspired by the concept of a ‘Pensieve‘. This is a dedicated space for when your mind becomes overwhelmed by too many thoughts and memories. Here, you can look at your experience from a fresh perspective. You can begin to notice life patterns, find clarity, and discover direction.

With this belief in mind, I provide evidence-based professional counselling for teenagers and adults, including neurodivergent clients. This is a safe space to slow things down, make sense of what’s happening, and start to feel more like yourself.

Established: 2017. Mental Health Support for Teenagers, Adults, including Neurodivergence

As an Anxiety UK-approved, person-centred counsellor and coach, I believe you already have the inner wisdom to navigate your life. Sometimes, you just need someone alongside you as you learn to trust it. However, it is hard to hear that inner wisdom when your mind and body are out of sync. Our internal reactions can easily become something we fear or let control us.

Pensieve is a talking therapy that explores the interaction between mind and body when emotional challenges leave them feeling at odds or disconnected with one another.

The physical force of our nervous system reactions—whether we are experiencing the weight of depression and grief, or the hyper-alert states of trauma, stress, and anxiety—is often underestimated. Yet, it is a key part of working through what we face.

By noticing your body’s cues in our sessions, we can help your nervous system begin to regulate itself. Once aligned, your mind and body can become a calm, clear guide to being more you.

Established: 2017. Mental Health Support for Teenagers, Adults, including Neurodivergence

Whether you are looking for Short-term focused sessions to support specific topics or dilemmas, or open-ended, long-term therapy to explore deeper patterns and self-discovery.

Together, we can help you get to know yourself more deeply and find a way forward.

If you’re looking for a safe space to ‘simply be’ and gently work through difficult feelings, I would love to hear from you.

Get in Touch

Nicky x

Read more about how I work with the nervous system, attachment patterns, and internal battles to help you feel more like you.

My approach

Areas of Support

Every life transition and struggle shows up uniquely in our minds and bodies. Below are the common areas which are often intertwined.

If you are experiencing emotional distress or feeling overwhelmed by life’s pressures, I offer a safe, collaborative space to help you step out of survival mode and back into yourself.

Relationships & the One with Yourself

Finding your relationships difficult?

Relationships can trigger past pain, leaving us feeling flooded, defensive or completely shut down.

Let’s safely untangle you so you can clearly set boundaries and feel like yourself

Supporting Your Relationships

Stress Coaching

Constantly “wired” and unable to switch off?

Merely surviving the day, sleep-deprived, constantly wired?

We focus on mind- and body-based support to safely release the built-up pressure that your mind cannot simply think away.

Supporting Stress

Anxiety Counselling

Anxious about being anxious?

Caught on constant alert, racing thoughts, or overwhelming dread?

We work together to soothe your activated nervous system, returning you to a calmer internal state of stability.

Anxiety Counselling

Depression Therapy

Feeling flat, heavy, or completely disconnected?

Feeling exhausted, flat, disconnected from your feelings?

Together, we reconnect you to trapped emotions to find your energy.

Depression Therapy

Trauma Therapy

Is the past taking over the present?

Haunted by past experiences or sudden life disruptions that echo through you?

Using trauma-informed frameworks, we safely process stored distress to enable you to feel more present.

Therapy for Trauma

Grief and Loss Counselling

An echoing silence

Heartbroken, shattering waves of loss?

Grief cannot be rushed or fixed.

I offer the space to honour your pain and help you carry yourself forward.

Grief Counselling

Reclaiming your momentum: Life and Health Coaching

In-Person Coaching in Milborne St Andrew, Dorset & Online Nationwide

Sometimes, the feelings you are carrying aren’t about the past but are a call to attention about your present life. You may be coming to coaching feeling ready for change, seeking balance, or looking to break free from the humdrum before numbness becomes a permanent feature. Sometimes, you have no idea what you want, but you know you want more than what life has handed you.

Whether you are facing a pivotal point in your life or navigating the practical weight of a chronic health condition, you don’t have to figure out your next steps alone.

Explore the two distinct ways we can work together to help you move forward with clarity, confidence, and direction:

For those navigating major life shifts, building internal confidence, overcoming patterns of procrastination, and exploring what it truly means to thrive.

Life Coaching and Transitions

A dedicated, trauma-informed space to manage the practical, physical, and emotional impact of short- or long-term chronic illness and carer fatigue.

Health and Illness Coaching

Your Sessions, Your Way

face to face counselling poole, blandford, dorchester

Counselling and coaching sessions are shaped around how you naturally think, feel, and communicate. This includes supporting various neurodivergent variations in:

- Attention & Focus: Pacing our conversations to match your natural cognitive style.
- Sensory Sensitivity: Creating our physical environment or online setup respects your sensory comfort.
- Processing Experiences: Giving you the time you need to explore your world without pressure.

Whether we meet In-Person or Online, you can mix and match formats to fit your varying routines, energy levels or lifestyle needs.

From traditional reflection that talking therapy provides to Creativity Counselling and Coaching, this is a space to express yourself your way.

Tailored Sessions

Information

Payment and cancellation policy.

Fees

60-Minute Session: £55
90-Minute Session: £75
(In-person, online, and telephone counselling and coaching).

I offer a free 30-minute, no-obligation phone or Zoom call, where you can ask any questions and get an idea of whether we might be a good fit to work together.

A limited number of concessionary rates are available. Please enquire if this would be helpful for you.

Private Health Insurance & Corporate Schemes

I am a Registered Healthcare Provider with Healthcode, allowing me to accept clients funded through private medical insurance and corporate health trusts. I am currently recognised by:

Vitality Health
Alliance Health Corporate
Anxiety UK (Approved Therapist Scheme)

Please contact your respective insurer or corporate provider to confirm your eligibility and secure your pre-authorisation code prior to starting therapy.

Ready to take that first step?

If you would like to chat about how my counselling and coaching services in Dorset can support your unique path, please get in touch to arrange a warm, informal conversation.

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