Hello! I’m Nikki Allen.

I've been a writer for 20 years, a trainer for 12, and I’m a qualified, BACP-registered integrative counsellor.

As a therapist and language expert, I run courses, workshops and programmes designed to help people communicate with confidence, and to grow and thrive. I offer corporate training, as well as wellbeing and mental health support services, including coaching, 1:1 therapeutic support, workshops and events.

Since 2013, I’ve trained people at the UN, Barclays, Cisco, HSBC, NatWest, Savills, Sainsbury’s, universities and the government, and had a stint as head of training at language consultancy The Writer. The 20,000+ people I’ve trained give me consistent 5* feedback.

My debut novel The Hideaway was published by Pan Macmillan in July 2025. A thriller set in a luxury Costa Rican resort, it follows five strangers stranded in the rainforest after a luxury wellness retreat with a famous influencer goes murderously wrong…

I wrote my first book aged five - sadly, The Adventures of Silly Susie Sausage was never published - and have been writing ever since. I was born in Holland, and now live in North London with my family, and a rather overweight cat named Tiny.