About Julia
Julia Brooker is a counsellor with 11 years' experience who uses an integrative approach. She combines person-centred listening with practical cognitive techniques to help people manage anxiety, low mood and addictive behaviours. Julia works in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation, which is shown as BACP in her details.
Her sessions start with listening. She gives space for people to describe what feels hard and what they want to change.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on real-life problems like worry, self-esteem, grief, relationship struggles and coping with big life changes. Julia also supports people dealing with phobias by addressing the thoughts and behaviours that keep fear stuck. Julia blends Client-Centred principles with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tools.
That means she offers empathic, non-judgemental listening while using exercises to notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas when these fit the person's situation. Practical work can include goal-setting, simple behavioural experiments and skills for managing strong feelings.
Sessions are collaborative so people can try small changes and see what works for them. Julia also helps with wider issues such as parenting stress, career concerns, chronic health problems and identity questions. People meet Julia by choosing the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which lets people pick the way of working that suits their life.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, and then taking steps that match what matters to you. ACT can help with anxiety, phobias and life changes by encouraging values-driven action alongside skills for distress tolerance.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at connections between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses straightforward exercises to test unhelpful beliefs. CBT is often useful for managing panic, phobias, low mood and sleep problems because it gives practical strategies to try between sessions.
Attachment-Based ideas and Client-Centred listening guide how the counsellor relates to people in sessions. That means attention to how past relationships shape current reactions, combined with empathic, non-judgemental listening that puts the person at the centre of the work.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with each person about goals, preferences and how they respond to different techniques. Together they decide what to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual connection for deeper conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messages suit brief check-ins or when written reflection feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the therapeutic relationship central.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- 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
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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