About Judith
Judith Ramsay helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and major life changes. She supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and a wide range of other concerns including ADHD, bipolar and compassion fatigue. Judith is a BACP counsellor with eight years' experience and works online with people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Judith uses a straightforward, person-focused style. She listens first to understand the problem as the person sees it.
How Judith works
Then she helps people build on their strengths and practical skills to manage difficult thoughts and feelings. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, not prescriptive. Her approach draws on Client-Centred Therapy to ensure people feel heard and respected.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is used when thoughts and behaviours are getting in the way of day-to-day life. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change, and Solution-Focused Therapy supports quick, practical steps toward goals. Judith also has experience supporting carers, and people who survived abuse in childhood.
She works in a holistic way, exploring how life circumstances affect wellbeing and helping clients develop coping strategies that fit their lives. The focus is on small, achievable changes rather than long lectures. Sessions are intended to be collaborative.
Judith helps clients set clear aims and reviews progress together. She encourages simple, practical tools that can be used between sessions to make day-to-day life feel more manageable.
Judith lists 4 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Judith's approaches work online
Judith commonly uses Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in online work. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding so the person feels respected and able to explore issues at their own pace. It suits people who need space to talk and to be heard. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact and teaches specific skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Judith will work with each person to decide which methods suit their needs and goals. This conversation is collaborative - she helps people try different techniques and checks what is helpful as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls are close to face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging is useful for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit counselling around work, caregiving or other commitments and to keep continuity when people move location.
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