About Nels
Nels Rodwell is a counsellor with 25 years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. Nels emphasises the client as the expert of their own story and focuses on practical steps toward a more fulfilling life.
She uses a somatic-informed approach alongside attachment-based and client-centred methods. In sessions she helps people notice how the body and mind respond to stress, then practises grounding and regulation strategies.
Background and approach
Conversations are plain and direct, and practical tools are offered for everyday life. Nels trained in Person-Centred therapy, Gestalt and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and she describes herself as a dual therapist when working face to face by combining counselling with massage. She also integrates writing therapy into her work to help people process difficult memories and feelings.
Her aim is to support people to increase self-awareness and personal responsibility while practising empathy and vulnerability. She helps clients identify patterns in relationships and communication, and offers ways to build stronger connections with others and themselves. Nels works with adults from diverse backgrounds and nationalities.
She frames therapy as a shared journey, offering steady, non-judgemental support and practical skills to manage emotions, cope with change and rebuild confidence.
How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions
Therapy with Nels often blends somatic awareness and attachment-based work. Somatic-informed methods focus on how the body holds stress and anxiety, and use simple grounding and breath practices to ease bodily tension and calm emotional reactions. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships, helping people understand how early bonds affect present connections and communication.She also uses client-centred principles that prioritise the person’s own perspective and pace. This means the therapist and client decide together what feels most helpful, and adjustments are made over time based on needs and goals. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process and is worked out collaboratively.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work and family life and to continue support when travel is difficult. Practical exercises, breathing techniques and reflective writing tasks can be shared across these formats so therapy stays useful and flexible regardless of how sessions take place.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English