About Judith
Judith McGill is an AASW-accredited social worker and therapist practising in Australia. She brings nine years of experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, depression and addictions. Judith focuses on practical steps, helping people reclaim daily routines and small joys when life feels overwhelming.
Her approach is grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, with additional use of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and mindfulness techniques. Judith aims to build skills for managing intense emotions, reducing self-criticism, and improving sleep and eating patterns.
How Judith works
She helps clients set realistic goals and track progress in simple, measurable ways. Judith has a strong interest in working with LGBTIQA+ people and in matters connected to adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and caregiver stress. She also supports those dealing with trauma, grief, intimacy difficulties and relationship or family problems.
Practical coping tools and steady pacing are central to her work. Sessions often focus on managing addictions, drug and alcohol issues, codependency and communication problems. Judith uses motivational interviewing techniques when people feel stuck about change, and she integrates mindfulness practices to reduce anxiety and reactivity.
She encourages self-compassion and small behavioural experiments that fit daily life. People who come to Judith can expect collaborative, plain-spoken conversations. She helps people identify what matters to them, develop skills, and make gradual changes.
The aim is clearer choices and a steadier day-to-day life.
Judith lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Judith works with
The areas below are the ones Judith selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How Judith’s approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It focuses on living according to personal values and taking small, meaningful steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy breaks unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns into manageable parts and teaches practical techniques to change them over time. Mindfulness therapy trains simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep, focus and emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Judith will talk through options and test what fits the client's goals and preferences. That collaboration means approaches can be mixed and adjusted as progress unfolds, so therapy stays practical and relevant to everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when people prefer to write rather than speak. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to work around daily commitments.
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