About Julie
Julie Lea works with people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck or unsure how to move forward. She keeps things straightforward and listens closely to what each person wants from therapy. Sessions aim to help clients build practical strategies and clearer ways to manage day-to-day pressure.
Julie uses a client-centred approach, which means conversations are guided by the person's concerns and priorities. She offers space to talk about stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction and low self-esteem, among other challenges.
How Julie works
The focus is on understanding each person and helping them find their own solutions. With ten years' experience, Julie has worked in residential settings, schools and with charities. That background has involved supporting people through crisis, building coping skills and strengthening resilience.
She draws on those past roles to shape how she responds to each person's needs in session. Julie is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often written as BACP. She practices in the United Kingdom and follows the relevant professional standards and laws that apply there.
Her manner is described as empathetic, honest and open, and she places the relationship at the centre of the work. People may come to Julie for help with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career decisions, eating or sleeping problems, ADHD, or feelings of emptiness and loneliness.
She also supports those coping with fertility or adoption-related stress and the practical strains of caregiving. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Julie aims to help clients build strength, clearer thinking and workable strategies they can use outside sessions.
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What Julie works with
The areas below are the ones Julie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Client-centred care delivered online
Client-Centred Therapy places the client's experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows what matters most to the person, helping them make sense of feelings and choices. This approach is helpful for issues like anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, and coping with life changes.Julie emphasises a collaborative process to identify the best way of working together. She will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, and adjust the focus as the therapy progresses so the approach fits each person's situation and aims.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people see and hear each other for a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, those who prefer typing, or times when a quick flexible option is needed. These formats make therapy more accessible and easier to fit around work, family and daily life.
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