About Julia
Julia Harvey offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, low mood, or long-term health challenges. She makes space for honest conversation and helps clients start small, manageable steps toward feeling more balanced. Julia is straightforward and encourages people to notice what matters to them most and try what works in everyday life.
Julia is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and she has two decades of experience in counselling and coaching.
How Julia works
She often helps with anxiety, stress, grief, low self-esteem and issues around career and motivation. She also supports people facing physical health challenges, sleep problems, anger and changes that come with major life events. Her style draws on client-centred counselling and mindfulness work.
Sessions focus on what the client wants to change and on practical approaches to manage difficult thoughts and feelings. Julia uses listening, reflective questioning and simple exercises to help people try new responses and notice progress. She also offers coaching-style conversations for people who want clearer goals around work, energy and day-to-day routines.
Her background includes long-term professional practice in the United Kingdom and experience supporting those affected by abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment matters, body image, caregiving stress and chronic illness. Julia wrote a book about recovering from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and building resilience. That work informs her rounded approach to health and recovery.
If someone is ready to begin, she invites them to take a first step and explore options that suit their life.
Julia lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How client-centred and mindfulness approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person in front of the counsellor. It helps people find their own solutions by exploring feelings and choices at a comfortable pace and is useful for stress, low mood and self-esteem concerns.Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment through simple exercises and breathing practices. It can reduce reactivity to anxious thoughts and help with sleep problems, chronic stress and coping with persistent health issues.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together they will try methods that fit the client's needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress unfolds.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging suit quick reflections or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and medical appointments and support continuity of care when travel or mobility is difficult.
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