About Julia
Julia Woods welcomes people who are feeling stuck, anxious, low in confidence, or worn down by difficult life changes. She introduces a calm, straightforward approach so clients can talk through what matters most. Julia names strengths alongside struggles and helps people take small, practical steps forward.
Julia has six years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation, which she uses to guide an ethical and reflective practice. She encourages people to lead the pace and direction of sessions while offering tools that match each person’s needs.
How Julia works
Sessions are conversational and goal‑focused, with time spent understanding patterns and testing new ways of coping. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and self‑esteem difficulties. She also supports people with relationship and intimacy‑related issues, addiction, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stresses and career worries.
Julia draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person. She uses attachment ideas to look at close relationships, cognitive behavioural tools to address unhelpful thinking and behaviour, and mindfulness practices to build moment‑to‑moment coping. Emotionally focused and client‑centred ways of working shape how conversations unfold.
People often find Julia practical and steady in session. She helps set manageable goals and checks progress as work continues. Her aim is to help people feel more able to manage daily life and move towards what they value.
Julia lists 8 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
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment‑based thinking focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and behaviour; online sessions use this to map relationship patterns and try new ways of relating. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) aims to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with practical experiments people can do between sessions. Mindfulness therapy teaches gentle attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build emotional tolerance.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Julia will discuss the options and help the client decide together which mix of methods fits their goals, preferences and day‑to‑day life. That collaborative choice can change as progress is made or new needs appear.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text‑based messaging offers practical flexibility. Video is useful for face‑to‑face conversation and reading non‑verbal cues. Phone calls need less bandwidth and suit shorter check‑ins. Live chat and messaging let people reflect in writing and fit support around busy schedules. These formats make therapy more accessible for people managing work, caregiving or mobility constraints.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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