Before having a career break to bring up her family, Julia was a pharmacist working in NHS primary and secondary care. This developed her interest in mental health and the role of talking therapy as a valid treatment option.

Julia is an Integrative Psychotherapist, which means she combines different therapeutic techniques to best suit the individual needs of her clients. She believes that every client is different, with unique life experiences. She therefore offers a therapeutic approach which is bespoke and one which she works collaboratively with her clients to envisage. Depending on what could be helpful, she might suggest a relational, humanistic, psychodynamic or cognitive behavioural approach.

Julia offers her clients a safe and confidential space to explore their thoughts, emotions and difficulties. She helps them to make sense of their difficulties and better understand themselves. She helps them to gain insight into their experiences and behaviours, find ways of coping and make the changes they wish to have in their lives.

Central to Julia’s approach is that she accepts her clients for who they are, believing that everyone should be able to access the help and support they need. She offers compassion, warmth and respect to all her clients and enjoys working with clients of all ages and backgrounds.

Julia can offer therapy for those seeking help with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, family issues, feelings of aloneness, bereavement and loss, shame and acceptance, physical health and illness, fear of death and the search for meaning.

As a relational therapist, Julia believes that our thoughts, emotions and behaviours are directly related to our relationships and that most mental health difficulties are symptoms of some unsatisfactory relationships, both with others and with ourselves. She spends time with clients looking at key relationships, both from their everyday life now, as well as important relationships and experiences from their past and explores the impact this is having on them now. She works with clients to help them to navigate towards a better way of relating to themselves, others and to areas of their lives they may be finding challenging.