Nikita Jones

Nikita Jones is a fully qualified therapist registered with the National Counselling Service (NCS) in the United Kingdom. She has completed extensive counselling training and brings years of client work to her practice, with experience in private practice as well as roles at a Rape Crisis service and a leading UK cancer charity.

As an NCS member she maintains ongoing requirements for training and supervision to uphold professional standards. Her practice is guided by ethical principles that keep clients at the centre of the therapeutic process and emphasise respect, sensitivity, and compassion.

Her approach is integrative - rather than following a single theory - and is tailored to each person s presenting issues and individual needs. Building a strong therapeutic relationship is central to her work, and she adapts methods to help clients move toward the outcomes they wish to achieve.

Nikita works with a wide range of concerns and commonly supports people dealing with anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. She also offers help with relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, addictions, family and parenting challenges, grief, career and life changes, stress, coping strategies, and compassion fatigue. She is a therapist of colour and a female practitioner who identifies as non-religious and liberal.

She is a licensed Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories (RTM) Protocol Practitioner. RTM is described as a non-traumatising approach that keeps the client in control: many people notice a change after one session and fuller effects are reported within 3-5 sessions. The protocol is typically completed in around 3 to 4 ninety-minute sessions. Sessions are clinician-led; the client sits comfortably and uses guided visualisation on an imagined movie screen to separate traumatic images from the emotions they once triggered. The work requires no homework outside sessions and clients remain relaxed while constructing the images during treatment.

RTM aims to disconnect the traumatic feelings from the memories so that memories remain but no longer provoke intense fear or helplessness. The therapy has been reported to eliminate traumatic nightmares, flashbacks and directly related emotional problems for over 90% of clients and has been found particularly effective for veterans and for people affected by combat, sexual, childhood and other severe traumas. Expected benefits include fewer flashbacks and nightmares, reduced re-living of events and physical reactions, improved sleep, concentration and emotional control, less hypervigilance, and increased freedom in thought and action.