About Juliette
Juliette Kirkwood is a PACFA counsellor with 20 years' experience who focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and life changes. She works with adults and adolescents and aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable. Her style is warm and steady and she prioritises a respectful pace for each person.
Juliette believes healing involves both mind and body. She combines traditional counselling with dance movement approaches to help people who find it hard to put feelings into words.
Background and approach
This can be useful for those with complex trauma, postnatal depression, substance misuse and other situations where the body holds strong reactions. Her background includes developing dance movement therapy programs in community settings and women's health retreats. She has worked in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric hospital settings and spent five years lecturing in the Graduate Diploma of Dance Movement Therapy.
Teaching and clinical work keep her practice informed by research and reflective learning. Juliette also has five years' experience as a school counsellor, supporting adolescents with anxiety, mood concerns, identity questions and life transitions. In independent practice she focuses on nervous system regulation and embodied awareness alongside talk-based work.
People who choose Juliette can expect collaborative sessions that aim to build safety, self-awareness and practical coping skills. She offers sessions in English and Arabic and works with a range of concerns including career stress, relationship problems and chronic health challenges.
Embodied and talk-based approaches for online care
Juliette draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that combine talking and body-focused work. One approach uses movement and bodily awareness to help people access feelings that are hard to say out loud; this can be helpful for complex trauma and clients who feel disconnected from their bodily responses. Another approach focuses on nervous system regulation techniques and grounding exercises to reduce overwhelming anxiety and improve stress responses.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Juliette will discuss options with each person and adapt methods to match their goals, comfort and day-to-day life. She aims for a collaborative process so clients can try practical tools and decide what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow for face-to-face connection and some movement-based work, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text sessions can suit shorter check-ins, quick coping strategies or people who prefer writing. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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