Nels Rodwell, NCPS

Nels Rodwell is a UK-based therapist with 25 years of professional experience supporting adults from a range of backgrounds and nationalities. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, motivation, and confidence, helping people move toward more fulfilling and connected lives.

Holding an NCPS credential, which denotes professional training in counselling and psychotherapy, Nels draws on a blend of therapeutic models including person-centred (client-centred), Gestalt, and cognitive behavioural approaches. She combines traditional counselling with complementary methods in face-to-face work - offering massage-integrated sessions alongside writing therapy - to tailor care to each person’s needs and preferences.

Nels approaches therapy from a strengths-based perspective, believing that each person is the expert in their own story and carries resources that can support healing. She aims to travel alongside clients without judgement, offering practical tools to understand, process, and integrate life experiences and relationships. Her work emphasizes self-awareness, personal responsibility, agency, and the cultivation of empathy and vulnerability as pathways to deeper connection with self and others.

Whether addressing abandonment, attachment concerns, communication or blended family challenges, or working through grief, dissociation, or issues related to domestic violence and divorce, Nels supports clients with warmth, patience, and a commitment to collaborative exploration.

How Nels’ approaches translate to online therapy

Nels integrates client-centred therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy to provide practical, compassionate care. Client-centred therapy focuses on empathetic listening and supporting the client’s own insight and growth - it helps with relationship concerns, self-worth, and developing personal agency. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a structured approach that examines links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, offering strategies for managing anxiety, low mood, and unhelpful patterns.

In addition, Nels draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand how early and current relational patterns affect present relationships and emotional responses. That perspective can be especially helpful for clients working through abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, or difficulties in intimate relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Nels collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts the work over time as new insights and challenges arise. Clients are treated as active partners in shaping their care.

Online therapy offers flexible access to these approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around everyday life and to maintain continuity of care across distances, while still working with licensed professionals and therapists who can guide practical exercises, emotional processing, and relationship work.