Reclaim your freedom, restore your energy, and build your confidence as you recover from chronic fatigue, burnout or an eating disorder.
Hello, I’m Nic.
I work with women navigating exhaustive conditions (like CFS/ME, neurodivergent and HSP burnout, and long-COVID), or challenges with eating and body image (such as eating disorders, disordered eating and body dysmorphia).
I've recovered from both chronic fatigue and an eating disorder, so I know firsthand what recovery takes and that it's genuinely possible. I'm also highly sensitive and neurodivergent, which means I understand how important it is to work with someone who gets how you experience the world, not just what you're struggling with.
Guiding you with a holistic, trauma-informed mind-body approach, I will help you break free from experiences like perfectionism, self-criticism, and overthinking, so that you can build the foundations for your own recovery and live a life that is fully and authentically yours.
Have you ever felt that no matter how hard you try, it's never enough? If so, perhaps some of these ring true:
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You have incredibly high standards for yourself and feel guilty or ashamed when you don’t meet them.
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You focus on everyone else’s needs while your own get overlooked or ignored.
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You feel trapped in the same patterns, repeating old cycles you can’t break, even when you want to.
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You struggle to balance what you truly want with what you feel you “should” do.
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Your inner critic is relentless, commenting on everything you do and making it hard to trust yourself.
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You know deep down that something needs to change, but you don’t know where or how to begin.
The good news is that there is a way forward, and you don’t have to find it on your own
Life can feel overwhelming when perfectionism, self-criticism, and overthinking are running the show. Between managing fatigue, navigating challenges with food, and untangling the inner conflict that follows you everywhere, it’s easy to feel lost or unsure where to begin.
I'm a counselling psychologist and wellbeing coach who's been there. After living with an eating disorder in my twenties and chronic fatigue in my early forties, I now help my clients by combining my clinical expertise with a genuine understanding of what it means to feel exhausted, trapped, and uncertain about the way forward.
Working together, we'll:
1. Help you understand what's been happening
We’ll start by exploring your experiences, patterns, and personal history so you can see how everything connects. This step is about gaining clarity and awareness, understanding the pressures and expectations that have shaped your life, and recognising what’s been trapping you.
2. Find approaches that genuinely work for you
Next, we’ll identify small, practical actions to help you move forward - no one-size-fits-all plans, no generic advice. Each step will be purposeful, helping you respond differently, make choices that feel right, and start creating real, noticeable shifts in your daily life.
3. Build your confidence, restore your energy and help you find freedom
Finally, we’ll focus on helping you trust your own judgement, develop healthy coping responses, and believe in yourself as you reconnect with who you really are and what matters most.
When healing starts to happen
As we begin this work together, you will start to notice small differences. There will be days when you have a little more energy, or moments when decisions don’t feel quite so loaded. The constant pressure to push yourself will begin to ease, and you’ll find you can go at your own pace, responding to what you actually need rather than what you feel you should be able to do.
Recovery won’t look the same for everyone. For some people, it will be about finding their way back to parts of life that exhaustion or fear once limited. For others, it will be about understanding themselves better, loosening old patterns, and beginning to live in ways that feel more true to who they are. Often, it will be a combination of both.
What matters is that change becomes possible. Not all at once, and not in a neat, predictable way, but in ways that are real, meaningful, and personal to you. With the right support, recovery can open up more confidence, more freedom, and more hope than it feels possible to imagine at the start.
Recovery in my clients' own words
"When I started working with Nic, I felt seen, literally and more deeply than I have in a long time. She genuinely changed my life by guiding me to change the beliefs given to me by other people and realise that I can in fact write my own narrative." - Clare M
"Nic has helped me enormously! She is great at listening attentively and distilling insight and thought provoking questions from out of the tangle of my thoughts. She allows me to be and say who I am." - Rosie M
“I can say this without any doubt, that Nic has completely transformed my life! She has a very gentle and caring nature and a subtle way of asking all the right questions, that helped me uncover beliefs and patterns that I had buried and ignored in childhood, and once they were on the surface, she helped me to navigate them and change them into positives!” - Mary K
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Contact Me
I’d love to hear from you, so if you have any questions that aren’t covered in my FAQs, or you’d like to explore the possibility of working together, feel free to email me at nic@drnicrance.com, leave me a message on 07364 135952, or fill in the form below - whichever feels easiest.
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