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.

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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

Relationships including the One with Yourself

Whether you are navigating a long-term partnership, parenting, dating, workplace dynamics or juggling complex family or friendships, relationships can leave you feeling overwhelmed. Sometimes the dynamic itself is the challenge. Often, the natural challenges of connecting with others can cause past emotional pain, trauma, or old survival strategies to surface in unexpected ways. You might also be reeling from being abruptly left or abandoned, struggling to make sense of what happened.

When these painful experiences and pressures take over, we can find ourselves feeling flooded, highly defensive, or completely shut down. We might find ourselves losing sight of who we are in the process, or feeling entirely disconnected from the people around us.

If you want to improve your connections, safely break those old survival patterns, navigate loss, and learn how to be more you around others, you don’t have to figure it out alone.

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Life's Struggles

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Direction and Life Coaching

At a crossroads, stuck, unfulfilled, and ready for a new path?

This future-focused approach helps untangle your true ambitions, align your habits, and step forward with clarity and confidence.

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 differences in attention, sensory sensitivity and processing experiences.

Tailoring sessions to suit you – Helping you feel more comfortable.
In-Person | Online – Mix and match to fit varying routines.
Creativity in Counselling – Expressing yourself in your own way.

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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