Nick is an experienced Relate trained couples counsellor who is a Registered Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) as well as an Accredited Member of the National Counselling Society.
He specialises in relationship counselling for couples of all genders as well as individuals who would like counselling on their own for their relationship. He is experienced in dealing with a wide range of relationship issues. For a comprehensive list please go to www.oxford-relationshipcounselling.co.uk .
As a couples counsellor Nick uses Emotionally Focused Therapy which is fast becoming recognized internationally as a highly effective and successful way of working with relationships.
It is a model of therapy that is well researched and one of the few couple therapies that has any sort of outcome data and success rate. It is empirically validated scientifically as a successful way of working with couple relationships. www.iceeft.com
Looking at the success rate of Emotionally Focused Therapy, a recent meta-analysis of the best studies found 70-73% of couples to be recovered from marital distress and 90% of couples to have significantly improved.
Over the last ten years Nick estimates that he has given over 5,000 couple sessions and in addition to being a couples counsellor he is also a trained mediator and an experienced facilitator of communication.