• Log in / Register
  • FOR THERAPISTS
  • Find a therapist

    • Articles by Camilla Nicholls

    Camilla Nicholls

    Camilla Nicholls

    Camilla Nicholls is a BACP registered psychodynamic psychotherapist based in London. She has experience working with issues such as anxiety, depression, stress and trauma and offers both long and short-term therapy. 

    Categories

    Doctors Dissected: What are Doctors really Thinking?
    06Feb

    Doctors Dissected: What are Doctors really Thinking?
    Camilla Nicholls
    books
    Work
    As I sat down to write about the relationship I have with ‘my GP’ I realised I couldn’t. Last summer I had cause to visit a general practitioner several times, I am asthmatic and although my condition is manageable day-to-day sometimes I need additional care. I saw three different doctors in the space of six weeks. One was a locum covering for holidays the other two were regulars at the surgery.  All were professional, helpful, concerned. But they, like their approaches, were all different and that was just over one short season. Even if we live in the...
    » Read More
    Culture Tip: PJ Harvey's 'Recording in Progress'
    23Jan

    Culture Tip: PJ Harvey's 'Recording in Progress'
    Camilla Nicholls
    creativity, culture
    Soul
    PJ Harvey’s collaboration with Artangel and Somerset House, Recording in Progress, is an extraordinary insight not just into the recording of music but the making of it too. It is probably one of the most absorbing cultural experiences in London right now. An ‘architectural installation’ by Something & Son with one-way glazing allows groups of up to 45 people a 45 minute session watching PJ Harvey, her musicians, engineers and producers record her ninth album. The slight figure of Harvey stands beneath a bespoke coat of arms engrossed in her work. Her...
    » Read More
    Culture Tip: Grayson Perry's Who Are You?
    21Nov

    Culture Tip: Grayson Perry's Who Are You?
    Camilla Nicholls
    creativity, culture
    Soul
    The Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry talking recently about Who Are You?, his display of new works at the National Portrait Gallery in London, commented that, “identity is one of those words that gets used a lot particularly in political terms and it always seems a slippery term to me”. In this diverse collection of 14 portraits shown in the Gallery’s nineteenth and twentieth century rooms Perry uses his fierce intelligence and particularly winning aesthetic to try to pin that term down. The works have all been made in response to meeting...
    » Read More
    Culture Tip: Pride
    25Sep

    Culture Tip: Pride
    Camilla Nicholls
    Soul
    When watching Pride, written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus, a warm, witty and timely film based on true events during the miner's strike of 1984, I was reminded of one of my favourite protest posters of the late twentieth century: 'If Thatcher gets up your nose, picket'.  I was taken back to a period of my life when bucket-waving and badge-wearing were everyday occurrences. I recall a time of political certainty for myself and my peers. We knew we wanted 'Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Out, Out, Out!' We didn't want to go to war. We didn't want...
    » Read More
    Culture Tip: All in the Mind
    23May

    Culture Tip: All in the Mind
    Camilla Nicholls
    culture, depression
    Soul
    I had to stop the car when I was driving home from the Tavistock clinic recently. There was nothing wrong with me, or the car, I just needed to focus on what was happening on the radio. A young woman, Sally, suffering from long-term depression and what she described as a ‘constant state of disassociation’ was telling presenter Claudia Hammond why she was nominating her friend, George, in the individual category for the BBC All in the Mind 25th Anniversary Awards. She read out part of the email she had sent to the programme in support of her nomination. Anyone who...
    » Read More
    Culture Tip: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
    16May

    Culture Tip: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
    Camilla Nicholls
    books, culture, psychology
    Soul
    This week's Culture Tip is the first, and may possibly be the last, to incite in me an urgent need to increase dental flossing. Joshua Ferris’s new novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour follows anti-hero, Paul O’Rourke, who is a Red Sox fan, an avowed atheist and an acclaimed New York dentist with a thriving practice. He is a man who cares deeply about oral hygiene and his pain at his patients’ dental deterioration is palpable. He is impotent in the face of a prolific alter ego who, it seems, might just be a kinder, nicer and far from agnostic him. Paul...
    » Read More
    Culture Tip: The Pale Fox at Chisenhale Gallery
    21Mar

    Culture Tip: The Pale Fox at Chisenhale Gallery
    Camilla Nicholls
    creativity, culture
    Soul
    The Pale Fox, the first UK solo exhibition of the French, New York-based artist Camille Henrot, is currently on show at Chisenhale Gallery a publicly funded space that garners awards and frequently punches above it’s weight in terms of its programming and outreach work with local communities. On the day I saw the show there had already been a visit by members of the East End Women’s Institute and the gallery was filled with comprehensively tall-haired students from Wimbledon College of Arts. Henrot was awarded the Silver Lion for most promising artist at the Venice...
    » Read More