About Judith
Judith McGill is an AASW-accredited social worker and therapist based in Australia. She draws on nine years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction issues and mood concerns. Judith believes people know their own story and works alongside them to find practical ways forward.
Her work often focuses on everyday problems that feel overwhelming. She supports people dealing with depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting pressures and changes at work.
Background and approach
She also helps with sleep and eating concerns, low self-esteem, anger and the effects of trauma and abuse. Judith uses clear, evidence-informed approaches in sessions. She mixes cognitive behavioural strategies with mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas to help people change unhelpful patterns.
Dialectical behaviour therapy tools are used when people need skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She has a particular interest in working with LGBTIQA+ clients and people affected by addiction. Judith also pays attention to complex situations such as adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress and comorbidity of mental health and substance use concerns.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and practical. Judith helps people set achievable goals, practise skills between sessions and track small changes. Her style is direct yet warm, focused on building coping tools that can be used in everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Judith commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her online work. ACT helps people clarify what matters most and practise small committed actions, which can reduce the hold of anxiety and avoidance. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviour patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression and sleep problems.She also draws on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. DBT skills teach practical techniques for managing strong emotions, improving communication and reducing impulsive reactions, which can be helpful for people with high emotional intensity or self-harm risk.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Judith will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then recommend strategies to try. This is a collaborative process and changes can be made as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful when visual connection helps the work. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in suits. Live chat and messaging support more frequent, brief contact and skills coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around family, work and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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