About Nicola
Nicola (Nicki) Cartmill is a counsellor who blends clinical training with a gentle, conversational style. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has five years of practice. Nicki aims to help people who feel stuck by offering calm guidance and practical ways to manage difficult moments.
She works with issues such as anxiety, stress, depression and panic, and supports people dealing with grief and bereavement.
Background and approach
She also helps with relationship and communication problems, parenting stresses, addiction concerns and life transitions. Sessions focus on understanding what is driving distress and finding coping strategies that fit everyday life. Nicki draws on approaches that centre relationships and emotion.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early connections affect current patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas are used to name feelings and reshape how people respond in close relationships. Her style is warm, reflective and down-to-earth.
She listens without judgment and asks practical questions to make sense of what matters most. Work in sessions may include naming strong emotions, practising new ways to speak about needs, and testing small changes between meetings. People choosing to work with her can expect a collaborative process.
Goals are set together and reviewed as work progresses. Her aim is to help people regain a clearer sense of direction and more reliable ways to cope with life’s challenges.
How her approaches work online and in sessions
Nicola uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and where they might try different responses. Client-Centred Therapy underpins her way of listening; it gives space for people to lead the conversation and find their own answers. Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques are used to identify and name painful emotions and then work to change unhelpful interaction cycles in relationships.Choosing an approach is a shared task. She will talk through options with each person and agree what to try first based on their needs and goals. Goals are regularly reviewed so the work can shift if something is not helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone work can suit people with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit short check-ins, brief coaching-style work or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, parenting and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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