About Judith
Judith McGill is an AASW-accredited social worker with nine years' experience supporting adults through anxiety, stress and life transitions. She works in a direct, down-to-earth way and helps people who are struggling with mood, addictive behaviours and relationship difficulties. Judith is based in Australia and is experienced with concerns linked to identity and LGBTI issues.
Judith uses a mix of practical approaches that focus on what helps people day to day.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skills practice, gentle challenge and values-based planning. She aims to make therapy feel manageable and to break problems into small, achievable steps. Her background includes work with people facing trauma, grief and complex emotional reactions such as anger, dissociation and emptiness.
Judith also supports those with sleep and eating concerns, attention difficulties and caregiver stress. She can help people navigate career decisions and the stresses of parenting and blended family situations. In session Judith keeps the tone collaborative.
She encourages clients to identify their priorities and to build on existing strengths. Practical tools from cognitive behavioural approaches and mindfulness are balanced with a person-centred stance that values each person's experience. Judith offers a clear pathway for getting started and explains options for online formats.
She aims to make early sessions straightforward so people can decide on the best pace and focus for their work together.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Judith commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her online work. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking steps toward those values, which can help with anxiety, avoidance and motivation. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new patterns with practical exercises that suit a video or phone session.Finding the right approach is part of the early work. Judith will talk with clients about goals and preferences, then choose methods together. That collaborative selection means sessions can adapt over time if different tools become more useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for skills demonstrations and face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins, homework notes or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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