About Juliette
Juliette Kirkwood is a counsellor with 20 years' experience supporting adults and adolescents. She combines talk-based work with a focus on how the body holds stress, and aims to create a warm, steady space where people can feel heard and begin to reconnect with themselves. Her practice is practical and gentle.
She helps people manage anxiety, stress and relationship problems. She also supports those coping with career changes, trauma and abuse, postnatal depression, substance misuse and a range of life transitions.
Background and approach
Juliette uses Dance Movement Therapy alongside more traditional counselling methods. This means she can work with people who find it hard to put feelings into words, using movement and bodily awareness as another way to make sense of experience. She has experience in both inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings and has run community programs and women's health retreats.
Juliette also lectured for five years in the Graduate Diploma of Dance Movement Therapy, which keeps her practice informed by current research and reflective learning. In independent practice she focuses on trauma-informed care with attention to nervous system regulation and embodied awareness.
She aims to move at a pace that feels respectful and empowering for each person, helping them find strategies they can use day to day.
Body‑aware approaches and online therapy
Juliette combines movement-based methods with traditional counselling approaches to help people notice how thoughts and feelings show up in the body. Dance Movement Therapy uses simple, guided movement and sensing to help people express emotion when words are hard to find; it can be useful for trauma, complex grief and when emotional experience feels blocked. Talk-based therapy focuses on identifying patterns, improving communication and developing coping strategies for anxiety, stress and relationship challenges.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Juliette works with each person to decide whether movement work, talking therapy, or a mix of both will best meet their goals. She adapts techniques over time as needs and comfort change, and encourages pacing that feels manageable for the individual.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face connection and movement work when appropriate. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a short check-in during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging can help people who prefer writing, want flexible timing, or need a lower‑intensity way to keep working between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Arabic
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