About Julie
Julie Lea is a counsellor who aims to create a calm space for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She works in a way that follows the client's lead and focuses on what matters most to them. Julie uses straightforward language and aims to build trust so conversations can feel easier.
She is based in the United Kingdom and is a BACP member, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
Julie practises client-centred work, which means she pays attention to the person in front of her and responds to their wishes and feelings. Sessions often involve talking through current problems, spotting small changes, and building simple strategies to cope better day to day. She has experience supporting people with trauma, abuse, self-harm, eating concerns and low self-esteem among other issues.
Her background includes work in residential settings, schools and charity services over a ten year period. That experience contributes practical knowledge about different life situations and pressures. Julie describes her style as empathetic, honest and open, and places emphasis on the working relationship as the basis for progress.
People sometimes come for help with sleep, addictions, grief, parenting stress, relationship worries, career decisions or attention difficulties. Julie also supports concerns linked to adoption and foster care, attachment and autism-related matters. She welcomes conversations about what a helpful way forward might look like.
If someone wants to begin, the usual next step is a short matching questionnaire and then arranging sessions that fit their schedule. Julie aims to work at a pace that suits the person and to develop coping tools they can use between meetings.
Client-centred care online and how it helps
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person rather than a fixed programme. The therapist listens closely to what the client wants and responds with empathy and reflection. This approach is often useful for anxiety, stress, self-esteem and the emotional impact of trauma because it helps people feel understood and gradually more confident in making changes.In practice the work involves honest conversations, exploring feelings and trying out small coping strategies between sessions. The therapist and client decide together what to try next, adjusting the approach to match the person's goals and pace. Finding the right way of working is part of the therapy itself, and the counsellor will collaborate to identify what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging can fit into busy days. These options make it easier to arrange regular meetings around work, family or other commitments and to keep continuity between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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