About Julie-Ann
Julie-Ann Huggins is a BACP counsellor with five years' professional experience. She offers a warm, interactive style and aims to create an open space where difficult thoughts and feelings can be talked about without judgement. Julie-Ann focuses on practical changes that help people find more meaning and enjoy life again.
She works online and builds each plan around the person in front of her. Sessions are tailored to the issues brought in, whether that is stress, anxiety, depression or difficulties with relationships and intimacy.
How Julie-Ann works
She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, addiction and the ongoing strain of caregiving. Julie-Ann draws on several approaches to shape sessions. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to look at thinking patterns, and Attachment-Based ideas to understand relationship patterns.
She blends these with client-centred conversation so people feel heard while they try new ways of coping. Her practice pays attention to life events such as adoption and foster care, ageing, chronic illness, and career change. She also works with concerns like body image, ADHD, and the impact of antigovernance or antisocial traits when these affect daily life.
Sessions are offered in English and Julie-Ann accepts clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. She aims to help people identify small, manageable steps that fit their life and goals.
Julie-Ann 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Julie-Ann works with
The areas below are the ones Julie-Ann selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Julie-Ann uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people identify what matters most and take small steps that reflect their values. ACT is useful when someone wants to move towards a life that feels more meaningful despite difficult thoughts or feelings.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical experiments that change how a person reacts. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, low mood and problems with sleep or eating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Julie-Ann will discuss goals and preferences and she will suggest methods to try together. That collaborative decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation that can mirror an in-person session. Phone sessions are a flexible option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing, want ongoing brief contact, or need to fit support around work and childcare commitments.
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