About Julia
Julia Brooker is a counsellor who blends practical talk therapy with structured techniques. She is a BACP member and has eleven years of experience working with people facing anxiety, depression and life changes. Julia keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters now.
She draws on person-centred ideas to make the client the focus of each session. That means she listens without judgement and helps people identify their own strengths.
How Julia works
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tools are used alongside this to spot unhelpful thinking and test small changes in everyday life. Julia has helped people manage stress, low self-esteem, grief and trauma. She also supports those dealing with addiction, bipolar mood difficulties, sleep and eating concerns, and relationship or intimacy questions.
Practical coping strategies and step-by-step plans are commonly part of her work. Her background includes a range of additional focus areas such as attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic illness and caregiver stress. This gives her familiarity with overlapping problems and complex situations that do not fit a single label.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal oriented. Julia will work with each person to set clear, achievable aims and review progress. People who prefer a blend of listening and practical tools often find this approach helpful.
Julia lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Julia works with
The areas below are the ones Julia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Julia's approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with valued actions. It supports work on anxiety, low mood and life changes by focusing on what matters most and taking small, value-led steps.Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the process. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the person's pace, which often helps build trust and confidence before practical work begins.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) adds clear tools to change patterns of thinking and behaviour. It suits people who want step-by-step strategies for anxiety, sleep problems, low self-esteem or mood difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk through options and jointly decide which methods fit your goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process that can change as needs shift over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different routines. Video lets you use visual cues and screen-shared worksheets, phone can be quicker when bandwidth is low, live chat suits short check-ins and messaging works for ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible so it can fit around work, care duties and other commitments.
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