About
Nicola Jane Gregory
Systemic family therapist, habitual expat, and advocate for those who have grown up between worlds.
Biography
Twenty years working with families across the world
Nicola Jane Gregory has worked as a family therapist since 2002, and from 2005 has worked internationally with families in multicultural environments — spanning differing languages, cultures, and value systems.
She has lived and worked in Denmark, the UK, India, and Dubai. She holds a British passport but considers herself deeply rooted in Scandinavian culture and life. This lived experience of cultural multiplicity is central to both her clinical approach and her writing.
Nicola is fluent in English and Scandinavian languages, and works with clients all over the world through online sessions. She brings both professional expertise and personal understanding to her work — she is, in every sense, one of the people she works with.
"It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same."
— Sarah Turnbull, Almost French
Qualifications
Specialism
Working where culture meets identity
Third Culture Kids & Expat Families
Nicola's clinical specialism is in working with Third Culture Kids (TCKs) — children who have spent significant formative years in a culture other than that of their parents — and the families around them. She understands, first-hand, the unique challenges this creates: questions of identity, loyalty, rootlessness, and belonging that can persist well into adulthood.
Her approach offers a safe, supportive, and genuinely informed space for families navigating relocation, cultural transition, language challenges, and the emotional complexity of a globally mobile life.
Who she works with
Approach & Method
Nicola works systemically — looking at the individual always within the context of their relationships, their history, and their cultural environment. She adapts her approach to each client, drawing on family systems theory, narrative approaches, and her deep knowledge of cross-cultural psychology.
She offers sessions in English and Scandinavian languages, working with clients across the world via video call.
Areas of focus
- Identity and belonging in mobile families
- ADHD and autism in TCKs
- Anxiety, guilt, and cultural adjustment
- Relocation and transition support
- Couple and co-parenting challenges
- Adolescent and child wellbeing
Therapeutic Practice
Individual & family therapy
Nicola continues to work with a select number of individual, couple, and family clients on a private basis.
If you are interested in therapeutic support from Nicola, please get in touch via the contact page. She works online with clients worldwide and offers an initial 30-minute consultation to explore whether working together would be a good fit.
Testimonials
In their own words
"Nicola was amazing to lead and support our talks, so we could agree on how to share the children between us and be the best possible family. Today we have great communication — I know the support we received from Nicola in those very difficult months is the main reason for how we relate today."Sara — United Kingdom / Denmark
"I give Nicola my warmest and most sincere recommendations. She steered me in the right direction during a rough period in my life, and thanks to her I became a stronger and more grounded person."J — Sweden / Denmark
"She was, and still is, like a sun in my life — warm and shining, who gave my confidence back. No words can describe what she did for us."R — Romania
Invite Nicola to speak at your event
She speaks at schools, conferences, and corporate events on mental health, ADHD, autism, and wellbeing in Third Culture Kids.