How I work

‘What you are to be,

you are now becoming ‘

Carl Rogers

How I work

I work with the belief that you are the expert on yourself and therefore I respect your thoughts and feelings. Everything you experience is valid and I will not judge you. My aim is to offer a friendly and non-judgmental space for you to talk openly and in confidence.

I will provide you with a safe space for whatever you feel comfortable bring to the session can be explored and reflected on. This is your journey and it is about trusting the process to find that next step or reflection.

“You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending”

— C S Lewis

Who am I

My name is Julie or Jules, as some know me as, and am working in my third profession. The underlying link with all of them is that I like to support and help others from being a teacher, manager, trainer, assessor and to now a counsellor.

As a counsellor I am able to bring all of my loves into my profession. My love of the outdoors from the magic of the changing seasons, amazing wildlife all around, spectacular flowers to my favourite of being by or in the sea. This is why I have taken my counselling into my walk and talk sessions as I believe that nature and being outdoors can support not only our mental health but also can teach us so much.

My next love is being creative from designing resources, courses/workshops, drawing & sketching to writing (which I still struggle with) but all bring me great joy.

My other love is one of being supportive and helping others by giving others time and space to explore their thoughts, feelings and emotions whether that be for family, friends or clients. Also passing on information that I have picked up from my love of learning and allowing others to use that information as they wish.

I bring with me my life experiences from living and working in a variety of cultures, working in education, in the charity sector, working with clients who presented a wide variety of Mental health issues, to empowering women with skills and tools to help themselves, to being a wife, daughter and mum.

Some of the areas I work in are:

  • Loss and Bereavement

  • Anxiety - general anxiety, health anxiety

  • Depression

  • Stress - both at home or in the workplace

  • Work/life balancing

  • Feeling SAD

  • Burnout

  • Anger

  • Low self esteem

  • Family issues

  • Mental Health

  • Neurodiversity

    • Supporting individuals who belief they are autistic or have recently been diagnosed

    • supporting families to understand about neurodiversity and look at tools and techniques to support them.

    • working with workplaces to support individuals within their work force or to help teams understand what neurodiversity is.