Nicola (Nicki) Cartmill , BACP

Nicola (Nicki) Cartmill is a BACP-registered counsellor based in the United Kingdom who brings warmth, kindness, and practical insight to her integrative therapeutic practice. With five years of experience, she supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, panic attacks, low self-esteem, social anxiety, and other challenging emotional states, helping them untangle complex feelings and develop coping strategies that offer both immediate relief and longer-term resilience.

Her clinical focus includes communication and relationship difficulties, discovering meaning and direction in life, and adapting to significant life changes. Nicola has considerable experience working with bereavement, grief and loss, and trauma, guiding clients through painful transitions toward greater understanding and gradual healing. She draws on a mix of therapeutic approaches to tailor sessions around each person’s needs and preferences, centering the client’s experience while offering practical tools.

Nicola holds the BACP credential, which indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and adherence to professional standards. She works collaboratively with clients on attachment concerns, intimacy-related issues, addiction and recovery, parenting and family dynamics, anger, and questions of life purpose, combining empathy with actionable strategies to help clients move toward clearer direction and improved day-to-day coping.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Nicola offers several evidence-informed approaches that translate well to online work. Attachment-Based Therapy explores the patterns of connection formed in early relationships, helping clients understand how these patterns affect current relationships and emotional responses, and it is particularly useful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and attachment-related distress. Client-Centered Therapy places the client’s experience at the heart of the process, with the therapist offering empathy, acceptance, and nonjudgmental listening to support self-exploration and personal growth across issues like low self-esteem and life transitions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on identifying and shifting emotional responses within relationships, helping partners or individuals access and express underlying feelings to improve communication and repair connection.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nicola will work with each client to identify which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adapting the therapeutic style as the work progresses and checking in regularly to ensure the chosen path remains helpful.

Online therapy with Nicola is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which supports flexible scheduling and access from different locations. These options allow clients to engage in therapy from home or elsewhere, making it easier to maintain consistency and integrate therapeutic work into busy lives while connecting with licensed professionals and therapists who can guide the process.