About Trudie
Trudie Johnston is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with six years' experience working with adults. She trained initially in person-centred counselling and later expanded her practice to include attachment work, cognitive behavioural approaches, and psychodynamic ideas. Trudie worked as a bereavement support volunteer before qualifying, which shaped her interest in grief and loss.
She helps people talk through stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and life changes. Clients also bring relationship worries, anger, career strain and health-related challenges.
Background and approach
Trudie listens closely and responds to whatever concern is brought into the room. Her way of working is warm and straightforward. Sessions focus on what matters to the client, using different approaches to suit each situation.
Trudie adapts tools from attachment-based work, client-centred practice and cognitive behavioural ideas to match individual needs. Practical steps and small experiments are used alongside talking and reflection. Mindfulness and somatic techniques may be offered to help with grounding, managing intense feelings and body-related stress.
The aim is to find realistic ways to cope day to day. She supports people affected by bereavement, chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image concerns and end-of-life issues. Trudie values steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She encourages people to take the next step when they feel ready.
Online approaches that focus on relationships and thinking
Trudie draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationships shape patterns today. This work helps people who notice repeated relationship hurts, fears of abandonment or trouble with closeness to understand patterns and try new ways of relating.She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to map thinking and behaviour. CBT-style work breaks worries into manageable parts and tests small changes in thinking and actions to reduce anxious or depressive patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Trudie treats it as a collaboration. She listens to a person's goals, life situation and preferences, then suggests which methods to try and when. That choice can be reviewed as therapy progresses so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and routines. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls need less bandwidth, and chat or messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or mobility limits while keeping the focus on steady, usable progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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