About Julie
Julie Shankly is a counsellor with 21 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are dealing with stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity and compassion.
Julie aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and supportive. Her way of working begins with a conversation to understand what matters most to the client. She tailors the dialogue and plan to fit each person's circumstances rather than applying a fixed roadmap.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical ways to manage anxiety, improve communication, and cope with life changes. Julie draws on several approaches to help people make steady progress. She uses client-centred methods to build a trusting space, cognitive behavioural techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking, and psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time.
Hypnotherapy and solution-focused work can be used where they suit the person's goals. Her background includes long experience across common and complex concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, eating or sleeping difficulties, low self-esteem, ADHD and caregiver stress. She also supports people dealing with intimacy, career uncertainty and compassion fatigue.
Conversations are straightforward and goal-minded. Julie helps people break problems into small steps and develop coping tools they can use between sessions. She encourages clients to set realistic goals and review progress together.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Julie commonly uses client-centred work to create a accepting, non-judgemental space where clients lead the conversation and set the pace. This approach is useful for people who need time to feel heard and to clarify what they want from therapy.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT to help identify unhelpful thoughts and build practical coping skills. CBT can be helpful for anxiety, low mood and patterns that affect daily life. Solution-focused techniques are used when clients want short-term, goal-oriented changes and clear steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Julie works collaboratively to decide what fits each person's needs and preferences, adapting methods as goals evolve. She discusses options openly so clients know what to expect and can shape the plan together.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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