Counsellor Profile: Student – Nick Cocking

Personal Introduction

Counselling offers, in a safe environment, a place to explore and articulate anxieties, fears and hopes. Sometimes it’s to identify fixed and unproductive patterns of thinking, behaviour and relating. Whether you come feeling sad, unmotivated, angry, lonely, or just confused, I aim to help create that safe environment with you, and to help you to start to explore freely the feelings that you’re experiencing.

About Me

I work integratively and take a relational approach where we will collaborate in enabling you to find the best way forward with whatever you’ve brought to counselling.

As a student counsellor I bring all the latest learning, research and training from the counselling and psychotherapy field into my work too.

Qualifications, Training and Experience

Qualifications

  • Currently studying: Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Experience

Outside my counselling training, I have over thirteen years’ experience working in a listening and peer support role for a national charity. I am also actively involved in public health initiatives for Sheffield and South Yorkshire, specifically around bereavement support and suicide prevention.

Areas of counselling I work with

  • Self Esteem
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Loss and Bereavement
  • Eating Disorders
  • Occupational Stress
  • Obsessions
  • Relationships
  • Sexuality
  • Faith/Spirituality
  • Work Related Issues

Types of therapy I am trained to offer

  • Integrative with a Person-Centred core

I work from Broomhill in Sheffield Monday afternoon and evening; Tuesday morning; Wednesday afternoon.