Direct access. Senior counsellor. No GP referral needed, short wait times. 20 years of experience helping you move through the “stuck” places.
I provide practical, identity-focused narrative-based online counselling for individuals and couples all over the world (excl. USA/Canada). Plus relationship coaching and life coaching for anyone anywhere who wants to break free of the script, whether that’s at work or in their private lives. You can book a free 15-minute discovery call here to see if we’re a match. If you can’t find a time that works for your zone, or you just prefer to write, you can contact me directly.
Rewriting the Script, Together or Solo
Do you remember when your life (or your partnership) didn’t feel like a constant negotiation?
There was a version of you who made choices without a three-week committee meeting in your own head. And there was a version of your relationship that felt like a collaborative adventure, rather than a repetitive loop of the exact same argument or just plain old domestic boredom.
When did that clarity slip away?
Lately, it feels like the problems are running the show. If you’re looking at your life solo, you’re likely bone-tired from second-guessing every career move and personal choice. If you’re looking at your relationship, you might feel like you’ve become a passenger, an afterthought; or that you and your partner are trapped on separate hills you are both willing to die on. The weight of it all is making everything feel scary, heavy, and exhausting.
You aren’t broken. Your relationship isn’t a failure.
Whether you are navigating a messy career crossroads, workplace burnout, or a shifting relationship dynamic, you know the exact weight of a problem that has grown too big for the room.
- The Hustle Culture has hijacked your professional spark, leaving you completely exhausted but too scared to make a change you know you need.
- The Cycle of Blame has turned your partnership into a toxic cycle where neither of you feels cared for, heard, or understood.
- The People-Pleasing Script has forced your own needs into the background, leaving you playing a role instead of living your own life.
- The Living Between Worlds has you or your cross-cultural relationship feeling unsettled, disconnected, fighting to find a sense of belonging.
These are just a few narratives that hijack our mental health, relationships and lives. No doubt you have your own specific one haunting you.
Maybe it’s time to figure out how your stories started dictating your choices, pushing you into corners, and stealing your peace. Stop them preventing you from living the life that you truly deserve.
The Narrative Approach: You are not the problem.
The Narrative Approach: Separating the Person from the Problem
My name is Nicole Hind, and I bring over 20 years of experience as a counsellor, coach and caseworker. My practice is deeply rooted in the principles of Narrative Therapy, an approach based on a fundamental truth: you are not the problem; the problem is the problem.
In our sessions, we externalise the challenges you are facing, treating the issue as a separate entity rather than an inherent flaw. Together, we examine how this problem influences your life, isolates you, or holds you back. By deconstructing its impact, we can create space for you to implement the meaningful changes you have been striving to achieve.
For couples, this framework allows us to build a shared understanding of the underlying narrative affecting your relationship. By identifying and naming this shared challenge, we can work collaboratively to disrupt toxic cycles and move past long-standing friction.
The Transitions I Support
I work with individuals and couples navigating significant life transitions, helping you establish a stable foundation and clear direction during times of uncertainty.
- Career Dynamics & Professional Burnout: Navigating professional crossroads, toxic work environments, or the compounding stress that career pressures place on both individuals and relationships.
- Relationship Evolution & Transitions: Navigating shifts within a partnership, managing separation, or breaking patterns of people-pleasing. For couples, this includes moving past gridlock and redefining how you relate to one another. For individuals, it focuses on reclaiming autonomy or dating intentionally.
- Expat & Global Relocation: Managing the unique identity disruption, displacement, and cultural adjustments of living between worlds. This support is tailored for expats across Australia, Singapore, Bali, Japan, India, Europe and beyond. I have travelled a lot and am now based in Asia myself, so understand some of those specific challenges.
- Autonomy & Values-Driven Living: Empowering you—individually or as a partnership—to step into a decisive role in your own life. Rather than trying to uncover a hidden, historical version of yourself, we work to integrate your life experiences into a resilient, evolving identity grounded in your core values.
How We Work Together
I work 100% online and have done since 2015 (long before lockdowns). Based on my timezone, I have regular availability that aligns with Australian afternoons/evenings, Singapore workdays, and European mornings. I am not able to offer counselling to people located in the USA or Canada. However I do offer online relationship coaching and online life coaching for everyone globally.
Strategic Support for Individuals:
- Clarify what the problem really is, name it, and navigate or even escape it.
- Process life changes (like relocation, breakups or career shifts) that have disconnected you from yourself.
- Build a sense of self that makes life feel exciting again.
- Find love: with another (or others) and for yourself.
- Learn to tune in deeply and trust your own knowledge.
- Knock imposter syndrome on the head.
- Helping you move beyond messy or ‘stuck’ situations to reclaim an authentic, values-driven identity that will sustain and guide you through future changes.
Strategic Support for Couples:
- Step away from the blame game and toward a shared understanding.
- Learn how to “fight fair” so everyone is actually heard.
- Stop letting hurt feelings make your decisions and start choosing your responses.
- Deepen connection so both of you can get off that ‘hill to die on’ and genuinely meet in the middle.
- Write a new story together that appreciates and integrates your pasts, but focuses on moving into the future together.
What I Don’t Cover
- Healing from physical or sexual abuse and significant childhood trauma.
- Diagnosing mental illness.
- Serious, long-term conflict and resentment or legal disputes between couples.
Unveiled Stories online counselling for relationship and career transitions is an especially good fit for non-conformists.
Whether that’s by choice or biology.
If you’re in a rainbow family, an expat or immigrant, neurodiverse or have PCOS. Whether you’re testing the boundaries of what society considers ‘normal’, you’re childfree, alternative, in a non-monogamous relationship, in a cross-cultural relationship, or simply identify as a fully-fledged weirdo, I am here for you.
When we learn to tell our stories in ways that make us feel stronger, a steady kind of confidence starts to show up. It’s from that place—where you finally feel on your own team again—that the rest of the noise begins to settle.
If you’re interested in that kind of online counselling as a couple or an individual, I’d love to hear from you.
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Looking for something a little different from counselling for relationship and career transitions?
If you’re navigating a toxic workplace and want online life coaching (for when you’re stuck in life) I do that. And I also offer online relationship coaching (that gets to the point). Plus there are loads of free resources available over on my blog.
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Want to get a feel for working with me? My book ‘Bolder’ is now on sale!
‘Bolder’ is a narrative-therapy informed self-worth journey. It’s a 10 ‘session’ deep dive into your problems and how to solve them by reconnecting with your values, deconstructing toxic societal norms, and having some fun doing brave confidence-building practices. Based on my popular online course ‘From Bashful to Bold’. Available on Kindle and all other ebook retailers.