Nicola (Nicki) Cartmill, BACP

Nicola (Nicki) Cartmill is an NCS-accredited integrative counsellor and a registered member of the BACP who brings warmth, insight, and practical support to her therapeutic work. With five years of experience, she helps people who feel uncertain about their direction in life to explore options, regain a sense of purpose, and develop strategies for moving forward. Her approach balances theoretical training with a compassionate, down-to-earth style that aims to make complex feelings easier to understand.

Nicola works with a wide range of difficulties, including anxiety, panic, depression, low self-esteem, social anxiety, and other intense emotions. She has particular experience in bereavement, grief and loss, and trauma, and offers tools to unpack painful feelings and find coping mechanisms that bring relief in the moment. Communication and relationship challenges, alongside adjustment to life changes and questions of meaning, are central areas of her practice.

As an integrative practitioner she draws on multiple evidence-informed approaches to tailor therapy to each person - for example attachment-based ideas, emotionally-focused and psychodynamic perspectives, mindfulness and trauma-focused work, and solution-focused techniques. Nicola also has experience addressing issues such as addiction, ADHD, parenting and family problems, intimacy and commitment concerns, and career-related stresses. She aims to create an atmosphere of kindness and clarity where people can explore their experiences and build practical steps toward change.