Nicky Cooper - Nurse, Therapist & Storyteller
A nurse, therapist and storyteller working with people who are holding more than they can say, helping them make sense of what they’re carrying.
Nelson, Aotearoa New Zealand · Online
You've been strong for so long, you've forgotten what it feels like to be held in a way that lets you breathe.
You're the one people lean on. The one who keeps going. The one who holds it together while quietly coming apart inside. And somewhere along the way, you stopped being able to tell anyone, maybe even yourself, how much you're actually carrying.
It may not be burnout exactly. It may be that you've been away from yourself for a long time, and you can't quite find your way back.
There may be moments where nothing looks particularly wrong from the outside, and yet something inside you feels harder to place than it used to. Life continues in all the usual ways, but your sense of being fully inside it doesn't feel as steady as it once did.
This doesn't mean you're failing or that something is wrong with you. More often than not, it's what happens when you've had to adapt over time, until those ways of coping start to feel like an identity.
When something is witnessed long enough, it begins to remember itself.
Some things don't need solving. They need to be held long enough that they begin to make sense again.
You don't need a programme, a framework or something to fix. You need to be met here, with what's actually happening in and around you.
1:1 Nervous System & Emotional Support
Gentle, deep, unhurried work for people who are exhausted, overwhelmed or quietly unravelling, helping you reconnect with yourself. Drawing on decades of nursing and therapeutic experience, alongside hypnotherapy, Havening, somatic and relational approaches, I use what fits the person rather than asking the person to fit a method.
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Parenting Support & Circle of Security™
For parents, caregivers, and teachers who want to understand what’s happening beneath behaviour, their child’s, and their own.
Circle of Security™ groups, one-to-one parenting support, and practical tools grounded in attachment science and nervous system awareness.
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Workshops, Groups & Professional Development
For organisations, schools, health teams, and community groups.
Trauma, neurodiversity, attachment, and nervous system regulation from lived clinical experience, not theory alone.
How Can I Help?
Not sure where to start?
A free 20-minute call. A real conversation, not a sales call.
If I'm the right person to help you, we'll know. And if I'm not, I'll do my very best to point you somewhere that is.
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or email me: hello@nickycooper.life
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BOOK
My Latest Book is Out Now
The 7-Day Sabbatical: A Nurse's Guide to the Inner Work
Our Stories. Our Way Back.
I wrote this book alone in a forest cabin, doing the inner work myself first. It’s seven days of guided stories, science, practices, meditations and journal questions, written for the ones who have held it all together for everyone else, and forgotten themselves along the way.
Some books you read. This one reads with you.
I'm Nicky Cooper
Nurse - Therapist - Educator - Writer - Storyteller
For more than 30 years as a nurse, and nearly 40 years working in care, I've been alongside people in hospitals, homes, hospices and the quieter places where lives come apart and find their way back together.
My background includes a Master of Nursing, clinical hypnotherapy, Havening, coaching, Reiki and Circle of Security. But more than any qualification, I've learned that what most people need isn't more advice. It's someone willing to sit alongside them while they find their own way.
What People Are Saying
"Nicky has the gift for knowing the right question at the right time, or using silence. She expresses a natural empathy, validating fears and feelings with respect and sensitivity. Difficult conversations were held with transparency, clarity, and understanding. A wonderful person, and no higher accolade,
a good, safe person."
Colleen K R
