Andy Nicholson

Andy’s passion is helping people understand and change the deeper emotional patterns that shape how they see themselves, relate to others, and move through life. His focus is not just on managing symptoms, but helping people create meaningful and lasting change from the inside out.

Before entering psychology, Andy spent five years working in education, including teaching senior Psychology and conducting research into teacher burnout and wellbeing. His clinical interests increasingly drew him towards psychodynamic and attachment-based approaches, and particularly Affective Set-Point Therapy (SPT). SPT focuses on understanding how early relationships and emotional experiences can shape enduring patterns in how we feel, respond and relate to others. Andy uses this approach to help people work with the underlying emotional patterns that can keep anxiety, low self-worth, relationship difficulties and other problems repeating, even when they intellectually understand them. His style is warm, collaborative and focused on creating change alongside deeper self-understanding.

Who Andy works with

• Adolescents and adults experiencing anxiety, depression or emotional distress

• People struggling with self-doubt, self-criticism or low self-worth

• People experiencing relationship or attachment difficulties

• Those who feel stuck in patterns that continue to repeat despite their best efforts

• People wanting to understand themselves more deeply and create lasting change

Background

• Provisional Psychologist and Registered Teacher

• Five years working in education, including teaching senior Psychology

• Published research into teacher burnout, wellbeing and occupational stress

• Ongoing training and clinical development in Affective Set-Point Therapy (SPT)

• Experience in cognitive, learning, ADHD, Autism and diagnostic assessment across children, adolescents and adults

Outside the clinic you’ll usually find Andy spending time with his family, surfing, training, or playing drums.