About Trudie
Trudie Johnston is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She is registered with the BACP and the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, and supports adults aged 18 and over. Trudie began as a bereavement support volunteer and that experience shaped her move into counselling.
Her work often addresses stress, anxiety and depression, and she helps people facing grief, low self-esteem and life changes.
How Trudie works
She also offers support for relationship and intimacy-related concerns, anger, career strain and long-term health challenges. Additional areas include caregiving stress, body image, abandonment issues and the emotional effects of serious illness. Trudie draws on several therapy approaches rather than one fixed model.
She uses client-centred principles to listen and respond to each person. She also uses elements from attachment work to look at patterns in relationships and from cognitive behavioural therapy to identify thoughts that increase distress. Sessions are conversational and focused on what people want to address.
Trudie aims to make space for honest talk and to help people find small practical steps that feel manageable. She understands how daunting it can be to contact a counsellor and tries to make the first meetings straightforward. People who want someone calm and steady to talk things through may find her approachable.
She supports adults through change, loss and stress, tailoring her approach to individual needs.
Trudie lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Trudie works with
The areas below are the ones Trudie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| 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
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Trudie often combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural approaches. Client-centred work focuses on listening without judgement and helping people find their own solutions, which can help with low self-esteem, grief and life changes. Cognitive behavioural techniques look at unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and offer practical tools to reduce anxiety, low mood and stress. She also uses attachment-informed ideas to understand how early relationship patterns show up now. That approach helps when worries repeat in current relationships or when people feel stuck by old responses. Finding the right mix of these methods is part of the work and is guided by each person's goals and preferences. Online sessions can be helpful because they fit into busy lives. Video calls let people see visual cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a shorter break. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing written reflection between meetings. Trudie treats online work as a collaborative process. She will discuss different approaches and session formats and agree a plan that matches the client's needs, goals and day-to-day life.Start online instead of waiting
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