About Julia
Julia Slek welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by loss, anxiety, or major life changes. She focuses on listening first and helping people find manageable next steps. Julia uses simple, direct conversation to help each person make sense of what they are facing.
Julia holds a BACP credential, and she brings five years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom. Her work has often involved bereavement, palliative care and supporting people through life-limiting illness.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, addictions and relationship difficulties. In sessions she follows a person-centred approach that keeps the client's experience at the heart of the work. That means the person sets the pace and decides what feels most important to discuss.
Julia offers a calm, non-judgemental space where feelings and choices are explored together. She also uses ideas from Imago relationship work to look at patterns in close relationships. When trauma is part of the story, Trauma-Focused Therapy techniques are used to help reduce the hold painful memories can have.
These methods are adapted to each person's needs rather than applied as a one-size-fits-all plan. Julia meets people online and by phone as well as in person in the UK. She speaks English, Russian and Ukrainian, and she can explain how sessions are arranged and delivered.
To begin, an online matching step is used so people can choose a time that suits them.
How these approaches work online and in session
Julia uses Client-Centred Therapy to place the client's experience at the centre of the work. Sessions focus on listening, reflecting and following the person's lead so they can understand their feelings and make decisions at their own pace.Imago Relationship Therapy is used to reveal and shift repeating patterns in close relationships. It helps people notice communication habits and practise new ways of connecting, which can be useful for relationship and intimacy-related issues.
Trauma-Focused Therapy helps when past events keep causing strong emotional reactions. It aims to reduce the intensity of troubling memories and build manageable ways to cope with triggers.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options with the client and decide together which methods best fit the person's goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and approaches are adjusted over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see non-verbal cues and support a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be a quieter option and use less bandwidth. Live chat or text sessions suit short check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer typing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and widen access to registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Russian, Ukrainian
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