Nicola (Nicki) Cartmill, BACP
5 years in practice
Nicola (Nicki) Cartmill is a BACP counsellor with five years' experience helping people find direction when life feels uncertain.
License and registration
- BACP
- 392115 · expires November 2026
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
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About Nicola
Nicola (Nicki) Cartmill is a BACP counsellor with five years' experience helping people find direction when life feels uncertain. She blends practical conversation with calm, approachable support. Nicki aims to make sessions feel straightforward and manageable for someone under stress or facing change.
She commonly helps with anxiety, low mood and panic, and supports people dealing with grief, loss and trauma. Nicki also works with those facing relationship strain, communication problems, and questions about life purpose.
Background and approach
She talks through what is happening now and helps people find coping steps they can use between sessions. Her approach draws on existential ideas about meaning alongside attachment and client-centred ways of working. That means she attends to both how people relate to others and how they make sense of their lives.
Sessions often focus on practical ways to improve communication and reduce overwhelming feelings. Nicki has particular experience with parenting concerns, fatherhood issues, addiction and problems around intimacy and commitment. She supports people dealing with feelings of guilt, shame or emptiness and helps with decisions around career or major life shifts.
Conversations aim to be honest and down to earth, not full of jargon. People who prefer a reflective but active style tend to find her helpful. She encourages small experiments in daily life and checks how those feel.
In time, clients usually leave with clearer options and usable coping ideas.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Nicola lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Nicola names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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Online support
How her approaches work online
Existential therapy looks at meaning and choice in everyday life. It helps when people feel stuck, overwhelmed by life changes, or unsure about direction. Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication. It can help people who struggle with trust, intimacy or repeated conflict. Client-centred therapy prioritises your experience and pace, giving space for you to be heard and to explore what matters most.Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process. Nicki will talk with you about your goals and preferences and decide together which way of working fits best. That collaborative selection can change as you discover what helps during sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier around a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, quick reflections or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family or travel schedules and to keep continuity between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
Nicki works with stress, anxiety, depression and panic, plus grief, trauma and relationship issues. She also supports people with addiction, parenting questions and career or life purpose concerns.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and down to earth with a practical focus. She combines existential thinking with attachment and client-centred approaches to help make sense of feelings and relationships.
What is her background and experience?
She has five years' experience as a counsellor and has worked extensively with bereavement, grief and trauma. Her work also covers communication and relationship difficulties.
What credentials and location are relevant?
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP, and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Work can be carried out by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on what suits you.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are supplied through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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